
THE 
AMERICAN COMMA BUTTERELY. 
RRR RARE EE EE 
GENERI Cc CHARACTER. 
Abtenne thickening towards the end, and ter-— 
minating in a clavated tip. 
Wings (when at rest) meeting Epyeres Flight 
diurnal. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Butterfly with angularly-indented fulvous wings : 
spotted with black; the lower pair black- 
ish, and marked beneath with a golden CG 
or comma- shaped spot. 
The American Comma Butterfly. 
Smith and Abbot N. Blt 
Ins. pl. 11. 

The Papilio C-aureum or American Comma But- 
terfly inhabits Georgia and Virginia, where its cater- 
pillar feeds on the leaves of the white lime-tree, and 
changes to a chrysalis in the month of May, from 
~which in that of June emerges the complete insect. 
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