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VANESSA AMATHEA. 
PLATE XV. Fig. 2. 
Pap. N. Amatliea, Linn. Fair Pap. Amaltliea, Cramer, PI. 
209, fig. A,B. 
The surface of tlie wings in this pretty insect is dark 
lirown approaching to black, with a broad hand of 
deep red running across the centre of both wings, 
hut scarcely reaching the anal angle, and. bifid at 
its anterior extremity : beyond this on the anterior 
wings are two transverse rows of small white spots, 
both of them irregular ; and on the hinder pair a 
single row of similar spots : the notches on the mar- 
gins of the wings are also whitish. The under side 
is much paler than the surface, but the markings 
are similar. Body dull black above ; antennse of 
the same colour, with the extremity of the club red- 
dish. Expansion of the wings from two inches to 
two and a quarter. 
A South American species, inhabiting Brazil, 
Guiana, &e. 
