PLATE XXVII.
VANESSA PELARGA.
Plate [XXVII]. fig. 1, 2.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Nymphalidæ, Swains.
Genus. Vanessa, Fabr. Latr. God. Hamadryades, Hübn. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Drury.
Vanessa Pelarga. Alis anticis falcatis, posticis intùs subcaudatis, omnibus suprà fuscis, fasciâ cœrulescenti-albâ, nigro-punctatâ, extrorsumque fulvo inductâ; subtùs xerampelinis lineâ fuscâ communi mediâ. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.)
Syn. Papilio (N.) Pelarga, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 513. No. 296. Drury, App. vol. 3. Stoll Suppl. Cram. pl. 27. f. 2.
Vanessa P., Enc. Méth. ix. p. 313. No. 37.
Habitat: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1776" (Drury's MSS.).