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PAINTED LADY. 
Cynthia Car'iui. 
PLATE XIX. Fig. 2. 
Pap. Cardui, Linn. — Donovan, ix. pi. 292 — Lewin, pi. 6 
Vanessa Cardui, Samou. — Curtis The Painted Lady, 
Wilkes, pi. 107 Harris, Aur. pi. 11. 
The genus Cynthia approaches so closely to the 
foregoing, that if it is held to be distinct, it can only 
be regarded with propriety as a subgenus. The 
chief difference is in the form of the wings, which 
in Cynthia are scarcely angular, and the hinder pair 
are rounded and simply” scolloped without any pro- 
jecting lobe. The club of the antennae is very 
short and abrupt, and the palpi are long, gradually 
narrowing to a point. The upper wings of the only 
species found in Britain are tawny-brown at the 
base, the middle ochre-red, inclining to carmine, 
with a very irregular transverse patch of black, and 
a large portion at the apex black, adorned with five 
white spots, the inner one largest, and placed 
obliquely, the others somewhat rounded, and the 
two in the middle rather minute. Near the margin 
