NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



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OG. DANAIS BERENICE Cram. 

 ]\1aroox Butterfly. 

 riate III, 2. 

 Size, medium. INIalc, above, uniform maroon or yellowish chest- 

 nut. Upper margin of fore, and outer margin of both, wings, bordered 

 with dull black, which on fore wings and on upper portion of hind, en- 

 closes a double row of white spots. There is a cluster of white spots 

 on upper margin of fore Avings, and a sub-marginal row of white spots. 

 Beneath, paler, with the markings repeated, and the hind wings are 

 black veined, and these vemings are narrowly edged with white, while 

 the border has the double row of white spots. The sexual tuburcle is 

 seen on both surfaces, but is white-centered below. Female does not 

 have the double row of spots quite reach the lower margin of fore wing, 

 and is represented on the hind wing, by a single dot on upper margin. 

 Body, spotted with white. E.xpands, 2.60 to 2,85. Habitat, Southern 

 States to Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. 



Fh. 19. 



a b 



a, Dirccnnajcrmima, upper side, h, Danais archippiis, fore ■wing, lower side; c, same, D. stri- 



97. DANAIS STRIGOSA Bates. 

 Pallied ]\Iaroon. 

 Size of D. berenicc and the general markings are the same. The 

 fore wings are a little more pointed, and the general color is much paler; 

 the spoctings on border of hind wings are continued with more or less 

 distinctness, the entire length of the border. Beneath, very pale, maroon 

 only in the central cell of fore wings, and there is an additional white 

 spot in the end of this cell and another, of triangular form, between the 



