148 . [September 



description of a new species of limenitis. 



by wm. h. edwards, newburgii, n. y. 



{Communicated Aug. li, 1865.) 



LiMENiTis Proserpina. 



Male. — Expands 2y'g inches. 



Upper side dull black, secondaries only having a slight bluish tinge 

 on the disk ; hind margins bordered by a double row of blue crescents, 

 which are wanting on primaries except at inner angle; the marginal 

 row of secondaries is indistinct; beyond the crescents, on secondaries, 

 is a row of russet spots almost obsolete ; primaries have a white streak 

 on costa a little more than half-way from the base, a white sub-apical 

 spot divided by the costal nervure, and a curved row of indistinct whit- 

 ish spots across the wing from the costal streak to the inner margin 

 near the angle ; emarginations of both wings white. 



Under side light reddish-brown, with a dark shade over the basal 

 half of primaries ; both wings have a double row of pale blue crescents 

 on a black ground, the apical, on primaries, whitish ; preceediug these 

 is a row of russet spots, before which, on secondaries, is a blue white 

 streak ; primaries have a large sub-apical white spot, and a white band, 

 angular without, curved within, corresponding to the row of spots on 

 upper side; base of wings marked by russet and blue spots, primaries 

 having one of the former on the arc and another within the cell, both 

 edged with black ; between these is a small blue sj^ot and a second 

 next base; secondaries have a russet spot on the arc, another within 

 the cell and a third at base of sub-costal nervure; costa of both wino-s 

 russet at base. 



Body black above; thorax black, abdomen white; palpi and fore 

 legs white edged with black; antennae and club black. 



Female unknown; Catskill Mountains. 



The specimen above described was taken by me in 1863, near the 

 3Iountain House. On the 2nd of August of this year (1865), I took a 

 second male of same characters in the Stony Clove, a few miles west of 

 the Mountain House. The upper surface agrees in all respects with 

 the other, except that the band of white spots of primaries is indicated 

 by a few scales only. On the under side the band extends from inner 

 margin two-thirds acro.ss the wing only. This species diifers from 

 Ursula in color of both surfaces, in the white band, in the russet spots 

 on upper side of secondaries, and the whitish streak on same wings 

 below. The lower surface more resembles Arthcmis, and the shape of 

 secondaries is that of Arfhemis, being more rounded than Ursula. 



