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CAMBERWELL BEAUTY. 
Vanessa Antiopa. 
PLATE XVIII. Fig. 2. 
Papilio Antiopa, Linn. — Donovan, iii. 45, pi. R9 — Lewin , 
pi. 1. — The Willow Butterfly, Wilke's English Butter- 
flies, pi. 113. — Curtis, B. E. ii. 9G. 
This is one of the largest of our indigenous but- 
terflies, the expansion of the wings sometimes ex- 
ceeding three inches. The upper side of both wings 
is a uniform deep purplish-brown, having the ap- 
pearance of velvet, hounded externally by a broad 
band of velvet-black, in which are placed a series of 
pretty large violet-blue spots, of an oblong shape on 
the binder wings, but usually with a tendency to a 
crescent form in the anterior pair : beyond this there 
is a broad cream-coloured border, slightly waved on 
the inner side, and sprinkled with minute black 
points, especially on the salient angles. The ante- 
rior border has two cream-coloured spots beyond 
the middle, and is mottled with yellow towards the 
base. The under side is shining dark brown, with 
transverse waved jfies of deep black, and a small yel- 
lowish spot near the middle of each wing, and two 
larger ones on the anterior border. 
