46 NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



long and narrow, twice as long as wide. Hind wings, short 

 and oval. Antennae, nearly as long as body. Central 

 cell, closed. Type, H. charitonia (Plate III, 1). 



94. HELICONIA CHARITONIA Linn. 

 Yellow-banded Butterfly. 

 Above, velvety black, with six bands of lemon yellow, three to each 

 wing, nearly parallel with lower margin of fore, and upper margin of 

 hind, wings ; the last two on hind, broken into spots. Beneath, paler, 

 with lower row of spots on hind wings extending around outer margin. 

 On lower margin of hind wings, are four crimson-lake spots, and an 

 elongated one on base of upper margin of fore wings. Expands, 2.50 

 to 4.00. Habitat, Tropical America, some of the West Indies, and Flor- 

 ida, north to South Carolina. Occurs in Florida throughout the year. 



GENUS XII. DANAIS. VEINED BUTTERFLIES. 



Size, large. Colors, reddish, conspicuously veined with 

 black below, and spotted with white. Wings, large and 

 wide. Antennae, but little exceeding one half the length 

 of the body. Central cell, closed. The males have a black 

 tubercle in the cell below the central, on the hind wings. 

 Type, D. Berenice. (Plate III, 2. ) 



95. DANAIS ARCHIPPUS Fab. 

 Milk Weed Butterfly. 

 Size, large. Color, above, reddish yellow with both wings margined 

 and veined with black which on the outer margin, contains a double row 

 of white spots, and there is a group of eight or nine reddish and white 

 spots near upper margin of fore wing, Fig. 19, b. Beneath, Naples yel- 

 loAv on hind wings and on apex of fore, but the remainder of the latter 

 is reddish, paler than above, and the markings on both are repeated, with 

 the white spottings larger. Sexual spot appears only on the uj)pcr sur- 

 face; body, spotted with white. Expands, 4.00 to 4.40. Habitat, from 

 British America and Ontario, southward to the Gulf of Mexico and the 

 West Indies, Occurs in Florida throughout the year, and in JNlass. in 

 July and August. 



