LIMENITIS SATYRUS. 327 



LIMENITIS FAB. Nymphalis La.tr. p. 64. 

 5. L. weidemeyerii Edwards. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliilad. 18G1. 



Male. Upper side brownish-black, with a broad common white 

 band a little beyond the middle, making an obtuse angle within on 

 the primaries and tapering towards the abdominal margin of 

 secondaries, divided into long spots by the nervures; posterior to 

 this band on secondaries an obsolete row of fulvous spots; within 

 the hind margin of both wings a series of small white spots, mi- 

 nute on secondaries; between these and the band on costal margin 

 of primaries a short transverse row of four white spots, the second 

 largest, the fourth minute ; crenations white. 



Under side paler, with a common white band and four white 

 spots on primaries as above ; on secondaries a row of fulvous spots 

 posterior to the band ; a little within the hind margin of both 

 wings a series of large lunules cut transversely and unequally by a 

 crenated black line parallel to the margin ; these lunules are bluish- 

 white except towards apex of primaries, where the inner row is 

 white ; on primaries a narrow ferruginous band upon the discal 

 arc, followed within the cell successively by blue atoms, a bluish- 

 white band and a ferruginous band, both narrow, transverse, and 

 oblique ; next the base blue atoms ; costa ferruginous ; on second- 

 aries the broad abdominal margin is bluish-white ; the entire space 

 between the band and the base is striped transversely with white 

 and bluish-white, divided into spots by the nervures, with ferrugi- 

 nous lines between the stripes ; costa white ; body above black ; 

 beneath white, with a black stripe along the side of abdomen ; 

 palpi and legs white; antennae and club brownish-black. Expands 

 2.6 inch. 



Rocky Mountains. 



EDWARDS. 



FAM. SATYRIDAE, p. 70. 



SATYRUS FAB. p. 76. 

 5. S. sylvestris Edwards. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliilad. 1861. 



Mole. Upper side brown ; fringe same color ; behind and along 

 the discal cell of primaries a dark patch extending from the base 

 half way to the apex ; near the apex a small round black spot 

 with a faint iris ; a black point near the inner angle. Under side 



