S-1141001_COMPLETO.pdf

PLATE XXXIV.
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PAINTED LADY.
Cynthia cardui. KIBBY. STEPHENS.
" " DUNCAN. WESTWOOD.
Vanessa cardui, GODAET. LATREILLE.
" " MEYER. HUBNER.
Libythea cardui, LAMARCK.
Papilio cardui, LINN^US. FABRICIUS. HAWORTH.
" " LEWIN. DONOVAN. SHAW.
" " PANZER. WILKES. ALBIN. HABRIS.
THIS is, I believe, one of the most universally-distributed
species of Butterfly in the Avorld, being found in every quarter
of the globe, and in every, or almost every country, both the
hottest and the coldest; in Europe and North and South America,
New South Wales and Java, North and South Africa. It is,
however, very uncertain in its appearance, at least in any numbers.
In Yorkshire I have taken it not unfrequently: near Falmouth
it was plentiful in the year 1849, but scarce in 1850 and 1851;
in 1850 not one was seen by R. B. Postans, Esq. near Stoke-
by-Nayland, while in 1851 it was to be seen in extreme abun­
dance there. In the same year it was captured near Hunstanton,
Lynn, and other places in the county of Norfolk, and in
Cambridgeshire, as Mr. Robert Marris has informed me.
In Ireland it is abundant near Ardrahan, in the county of
Galway; so A. G. More, Esq., of Trinity College, Cambridge,
has written me word.
The perfect insect is found in June, and also at the end of
August and beginning of September—a second brood. It occurs
in some years in great plenty, and in others is but rarely
seen. In the year 1828 an immense swarm passed over part