LIMENITIS I. 



LIMENITIS PROSERPINA. 1—4. 



Limenitis Proserpina, (Pros-cr'-pi-iui, ) % , Edwards, Proc. Eat. Soc. Pliila. 18G5, p. 148; Trans. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc. I, p 286, 18G7. 



Male. Expands 2.25 inches. 



Ujipei- side black, secondaries only having a slight bluish (occasionally green- 

 ish) tinge ; hind margins of secondaries bordered by a double row of blue (or green) 

 crescents ; the submarginal row is continued on jjrimaries, but is indistinct, almost 

 obsolete ; beyond the crescents, on secondaries, is a row of russet sjjots surmounted 

 by blue (or green) scales, which are more or less cons2:)icuous ; in some specimens 

 the russet spots are distinct across the whole wing, in some two or three only are 

 seen, and in others they arc altogether wanting; the blue scales or sjDots make a 

 circular band across secondaries, and are continued across primaries with more or 

 less distinctness (often becoming whitish) to the costa, and correspond with the 

 white band of under surface ; the contour of tliis band above is like that of Arthe- 

 mis, and it terminates on the costa in a Aviiite streak ; tliere is also a white subapi- 

 cal spot divided into two or three by the nervules; emarginations white. 



Under side brown, varying in shade from blackish to russet, and in this re- 

 spect and in markings remarkably like Arthemis, except tliat the white band of the 

 latter is here always slight and sometimes partly wanting ; both wings have a dou- 

 ble row of blue (or green) crescents, jireceded by a row of rounded russet sjjots, 

 large on secondaries, and on these, edged above and below with black ; the S2)ot at 

 inner angle of 2:>rimaries is wanting ; above the russet spots is a curved whitish band 

 or streak, common to both wings, sometimes half the width of the band of Arthemis, 

 but sometimes indicated by a few scales only above the russet s2)ots ; the subapical 

 spot and costal streak of upper side repeated conspicuously; base of wings marked 

 by russet spots edged with black ; between these are metallic blue (or green) uatches 

 as in Arthemis. 



Body below white ; fore legs white ; j^alpi white, edged -with black ; antennae 

 and club black, tijjjjed with ferruginous. 



Female. Expands 2.5 inches. Similar in markings. 



This fine species I fii'st noticed in the Catskills, in 18(33, when a single male in 

 not very good condition was taken. In 1867, I found it abundant in the Stoney 

 Clove and from 2nd to 4th July, took several fresh specimens. In the latter part 

 of July and first ten days of August 1868, I saw many more, of both sexes, both 



