THE 
THISTLE BUTTERFLY, 
Generic Character. 
Antenna thickening towards the end, and termi¬ 
nating in a clavated tip. 
Wings (when fitting,) upright. (Flight diurnal.) 
Specific Character, &c. 
BUTTERFLY with orange-red dentated wings 
varied with black and white : the lower wings 
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marked with four eye-lhaped fpots beneath. 
The Painted Lady. 
Albin Engl. Ins. pi. 56. 
Harris Aurel. pi. it. 
The larva or caterpillar of the elegant Butterfly 
here reprefented feeds principally on thirties and 
nettles. It changes into a chryfalis in July, and the 
Fly appears in the beginning of Auguft. 
