64 LEPIDOPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA. 



The form and size of the white spots in the primaries differ; 

 the absence of a large white quadrangular spot and a different 

 arrangement of the yellow bars mark this as a new species. 



Ohio. 



KlRTLAND. 



NYMPHALIS LATR. 



Head a little more narrow than the thorax ; eyes large, promi- 

 nent; palpi moderate, a little longer than the head ; last article 

 much shorter than the preceding, obtuse ; antenna nearly the 

 length of the body, insensibly enlarging in an elongate club ; 

 wings wide, rather robust, dentate, always destitute of ocelli and 

 prolongations in the form of a tail. 



1. N. Ursula Fab. Ent. Syst. Ill, 1, 82. N. ephestion Godt. N. astyanax 

 Fab. Figured in Stoll, suppl. a Cram, pi, 25. Sm. Abb. I, pi. 10. 

 Boisd. et Lee. pi. 53, p. 199. 



Wings -slightly dentate; blackish-brown above, glossed with a 

 bluish tint, much more deep towards the extremity of the secon- 

 daries. These have parallel to their 'terminal edge a double fes- 

 tooned black line, preceded by a bent transverse ray of the same 

 color ; three rows of bluish crescents, of which the interior are 

 much the largest. In the female, the blue occupies less space, and 

 the crescents which form the first row are truncate, less marked, 

 smaller, and each one supported behind by a fulvous point. 



The primaries have the summit more brown than the rest of the 

 surface, and marked by one or two small white spots. The pos- 

 terior edge has two rows of blue or slate-colored crescents, preceded 

 within by a row of fulvous points often indistinct, and existing 

 sometimes only on the half of the wing nearest the upper edge. 



Under side is brown, a little reddish, glossed, in the male by a 

 violet-blue tint, except at the summit of the primaries. The base 

 of these is marked in the cellule by two fulvous spots, surrounded 

 with black and environed with blue ; the base of the secondaries 

 has three nearly similar spots ; the origin of the upper edge of all 

 the wings is fulvous; the terminal edge of all has two rows of blue 

 crescents, preceded within by a row of fulvous spots bordered with 

 black behind. 



Body blackish, with the under side of abdomen whitish. 



