Vanessa (butterfly) Vanessa (butterfly) Vanessa is a genus of brush-footed butterflies in the tribe Nymphalini. It has a near-global distribution and includes conspicuous species such as the red admirals (e.g., red admiral, Indian red admiral, New Zealand red admiral), the Kamehameha, and the painted ladies of subgenus "Cynthia": painted lady, American painted lady, West Coast lady, Australian painted lady, etc. For African admirals see genus, "Antanartia". Recently, several members traditionally considered to be in the genus "Antanartia" have been determined to belong within the genus "Vanessa". The name of the genus may have been taken from the character Vanessa in Jonathan Swift's
I Have Said Nothing going." Hypertext author Stuart Moulthrop called the work "superb...finely balanced between savagery and sympathy." I Have Said Nothing "I Have Said Nothing" is an early work of hypertext fiction written by J. Yellowlees Douglas. In 1993 it was published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. in "The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (Winter 1994, volume 1 number 2)", along with “Lust” by Mary-Kim Arnold. In 1997, Norton Anthology published an online (albeit truncated) version of the work, along with Michael Joyce's "afternoon, a story" as part of its print publication "Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction". The plot of "I Have Said