THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 1 07 



Described from nearly forty examples sent me by Prof Owen and Mr. 

 Bruce. At the request of the Professor I name this species in memory 

 of his deceased daughter, Miss Cornelia, formerly the companion of his 

 entomological excursions. 



3. Limeiiitis Weidemeyerii, Edw. 



Mr. Bruce sent me fifteen eggs of this species from Hall Valley, 

 Colorado, elevation 10,000 feet, and I received them 24th August, 1891. 

 He wrote : — " I saw the female evidently trying to lay her eggs ; caught 

 and tied her on a small cotton wood close to my window. It rained for 

 three days, and during this time she remained motionless on the 

 under side of a leaf By noon on the fourth day the weather had 

 become fine and warm. On the fifth day she laid the eggs. I have 

 before confined several females of the species without effect, and was not 

 a little pleased at seeing the beautiful eggs." (I may say here that Z. 

 Ui'sula is almost the only species of butterfly which has persistently 

 refused to lay eggs for me in confinement. L. Disippiis will lay readily 

 enough, but I never have seen more than two or three eggs of Ursula.) 

 The eggs of Weidemeyerii are of same character as those of the allied 

 species at the east, and the young larva at birth looks just like a young 

 Disippus larva — the colour light brown. It makes a perch in exactly 

 the same way. After the first moult, the colour was dark gray-black, the 

 patch on middle segments sordid white, and the stripe at base along 

 the last segments same ; so was the dorsum on 3 and 4. The description 

 of Disippus at this stage will cover the present species, except that the 

 latter is more gray. After second moult the colour was mostly black, 

 the patch and stripe yellow-white. The third moult I missed. x\fter the 

 fourth, length .8 inch, the shape and the processes v/ere closely as in 

 Disippus ; the dark parts red-brown, a little mottled black ; the patch 

 yellow-buff; the basal stripe pure white, and running from 2 to 13 ; the 

 dorsum and sides of 3 and 4 yellow-buff; the processes as in Disippus ; 

 length of the process on 3 .11 inch ; head as in Disippus, red-brown, 

 rough with tuberculations. Three days after fourth moult the dark parts 

 turned to olive-green (just as in all the allied species). At maturity, 

 measured 1.2 inch, lying straight on a stem. After four days more 

 suspended, and the next day pupated. The pupa measured .9 inch in 

 length, shape of Disippus and Ursula, the dorsal process possibly a little 

 more circular than in Disippus; colour of the head case, and of ventral 



