PAINTED LADY. 
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there is an indistinct series of white crescents, be- 
yond this a row of faint yellow spots, and the fringe 
is white, interrupted with black. The secondary 
wings are tawny brown at the base and inner side, 
and black anteriorly, the remaining portion ochrey- 
red, spotted with black, the latter forming three rows 
behind ; the first consisting of five round spots, some 
of them indistinctly ocelliform ; the second of a se- 
ries of crescents, and the third of pretty large patches 
placed on the projecting points of the hinder holder. 
The anal angle is ornamented with a pretty large 
black spot, with a streak of blue behind. On the 
under side, the primary wings are whitish at the base, 
and have a large spot of that colour anteriorly, in 
addition to those that correspond to the upper side ; 
the tip is light brown, the two smallest spots en- 
circled with black, which makes them resemble 
ocelli ; and the whole disk is tinged with a beautiful 
tint of carmine, deepest towards the base, and inter- 
mixed with ochre-yellow externally. The under 
side of the hinder wings is delicately variegated with 
light-brown, greyish-white, and yellow; the darker 
portions intersected with white ramifications, in such 
a manner as to produce in some places the appear- 
ance of leaves springing from a stem. Towards the 
hinder extremity there is a row of five ocelli, the 
outer one small and obsolete, that next to it and the 
innermost one being largest, and powdered with blue 
in the middle, the intermediate two powdered with 
green : a row of purplish-blue crescents is placed be- 
