The butterfly that stopped a train.

Norfolk Island Moths and Butterflies.

http://cjoint.com/data/fnpcCOQQJg.htm


The 4c would possibly be the best known to most Australians
we know it as "The Painted Lady", I have not seen any in Western Australia
but numerous examples in South Australia.

They migrate South in Spring from North Queensland and NSW
and in 1889, numbers were so vast, that trains failed to generate traction,
due to
the numbers of butterflies resting on the rails.

Cynthia Kershawi is the sub genus of Vanessa Kershawi