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ADMIRAL RED. 
Vanessa Atalanta. 
PLATE XX. Fig. 1. 
Pap. Atalanta, I, inn, — Donovan, viii. pi. 260 Lewin, pi. 7. 
— Pap. major nigricans, &c. The Admiral, Rat/'s Ins, 
126. — The Admirable, Albin, p. 3 Admiralis Atalanta, 
the Alderman, Rennie. 
The upper side of this beautiful insect is deep 
black, with a fine silky gloss : the upper wings 
have a broad band of red running from the anterior 
margin obliquely across the surface nearly to the 
hinder angle, where it is considerably incurved, be- 
yond which are six white spots, small and rounded, 
except the two at the anterior margin, of which the 
inner one is large and quadrate, and the other some- 
what crescent-shaped ; beyond these there is a faint 
bluish streak parallel with the apical margin : the 
under wings have a broad border of red behind, in 
which there is a series of small angular black spots, 
and two semicircular patches of blue at the inner 
angles. On the under side of the anterior wings the 
oblique band is ochreous-red, becoming paler at the 
hinder extremity ; towards the base of the wing there 
is a narrow waved streak of blue, and two others of 
