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Fig. 21. Limenitis disippus (nat. size; under surface on the right). 
32. LIMENITIS DISIPPUS, Godt. 
Li-men-i -tis di-sip’-pus. 
Expanse of wings, two and a half to three inches. 
Upper side of wings, reddish fulvous, with black edges 
and veins. The outer borders of both wings have a row of 
white spots, and the fringes are white and black alternately. 
An oblique, triangular, black band extends nearly across the 
outer part of the fore wing, with a row of three white spots 
onit. A narrow black band across the hind wings a little 
beyond the middle. 
Under side paler but marked like the upper side, except 
that there are two rows of white spots on the terminal band. 
The larva of this common species feeds on the leaves of 
apple, plum, willow, poplar and oak. 
The eggs (Fig. 
22, a, greatly en- 
larged), of this in- 
sect, ure similar in 
size and form to 
those of ZL. arthe- 
mis, pale yellow at } 
first, but changing PY 
to gray. They are Fig. 22. Limenitis disippus; a, egg, greatly enlarged; 
p b, one segment of the larva; c, egg on the leaf of a wil- 
generally deposited tow; d, one of the facets of the surface of the egg, very 
f 
singly, near the end much enlarge 
