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probable there may be more than one species producing this 
mutilation in our squirrels. 
211 . Lintner’s butterfly, Vanessa Lintnerii, new species. (Lepidoptera. 
Nymphalidae.) 
To discover a new species of butterfly of a large size, in the 
State of New York, at this day, is quite an achievement, as these 
insects are such ornaments to collections that they have been 
sought after with the greatest avidity, and next to the beetles, our 
larger Lepidoptera have been more fully investigated and are 
better known than the insects of any other order. The honor of 
such a discovery belongs to I. A. Lintner, Esq., of Schoharie, a 
gentleman who takes much interest in the insects of this order, 
and has communicated to me several valuable facts relating to 
those which inhabit the section of our State where he resides. 
rids butterfly is closely related to the Antiopa or White-bordered butterfly, 
a species which is common upon both sides of the Atlantic. Its wings have 
perfectly the same form and arc similarly colored to those of the Antiopa, but 
their pale border is twice as broad as in that species, occupying a third of the 
length of the wings, and it is wholly destitute of the row of blue spots which 
occur in Antiopa forward of the border. Its ground color is deep rusty brown, 
much more tinged with liver-reddish than in Antiopa. The fore margin of 
the anterior wings is black freckled with small transverse white streaks 
and lines, but is destitute of the two white spots which are seen in 
Antiopa. The broad outer border is of a tarnished pale ochre-yellow hue, 
speckled with black the same as in Antiopa, and becomes quite narrow at 
tho inner angle of the hind pair. The wings beneath arc similar to those of 
Antiopa, but are darker and without any sprinkling of ash-gray scales or any 
whitish crescent in the middle of the hind pair, and the border is speckled with 
gray and whitish in wavy transverse streaks, without forming the distinct band 
which is seen in Antiopa. Any further description is unnecessary. A variety 
of the Antiopa has sometimes been met with in Europe, in which the blue spots 
are wholly wanting, and individuals occur in this country in which these spots 
are faint and some of them obliterated. But this butterfly differs from the 
Antiopa so decidedly in several other characters as to forbid our regarding it 
as a variety of that species. Its width across the spread wings is 2.75 It was 
captured in a grove of willows according to Mr. Lintner’s recollection. 
212 . Irene butterfly, Natlialis Irene, new species. (Lepidoptera. Papi 
lionidaj.) 
A small yellow butterfly inhabiting Mexico closely resembles 
those belonging to the genus Terias , but differs genetically in 
having the feelers standing apart from each other, and long and 
