LIMENITIS III 



LIMENITIS LORQUIXI. 1—4. 



Limenitis Lorquini, Boisduval, Aim. Ent. Soc. France, 1^52. 



Male. Expands 2.4 inches. 



Upper side dark velvety brown except the apex and upper part of hind mar- 

 gin of primaries, which is fulvous ; both wings crossed by a yellowish-white medi- 

 an band separated into spots by the nervules and bent forward nearly at right an- 

 gles on costal margin of jn-iniaries; midway between the band and apex an abbre- 

 viated row of four small white spots depending from the costa ; near anal angle two 

 small, rather indistinct, fiilvoixs spots ; fringes dark brown, white in the emargina- 

 tions. 



Under side ferruginous except base and inner margin of primaries, which are 

 fascous, and base of secondaries which is fuscous mottled with ferruginous ; the 

 sjwts as on upper side, but in addition, a submargiual common series of bluisli- 

 white luuules and sagittate spots, each, excejit the apical, edged above with fuscous. 

 Shoulder and abdominal margin of secondaries broadly bordered with bluish-white, 

 and the ferruginous spots of basal space partly covered with same color. 



Body dark brown above, with a lateral white line near extremity of abdomen ; 

 thorax grey and fulvous ; legs fuscous ; jmlpi white, dark brown above ; antennae 

 and club dark brown, tip ferruginous. 



Female. Expands 2.7 inches. In color and markings similar to the male. 



According to Dr. Behr, "the caterpillar feeds on willows and looks very like 

 that of Dissippus as figured by Boisduval and Leconte, the fleshy spines of the 

 neck being considerably shorter and whole coloration of a brighter green." Mr. 

 Henry Edwards says of the imago, "It is always found where Willows grow, fly- 

 ing up and down pathways in the hottest sunshine. It alights frequently and is 

 an easy prey to the collector. I have never found it far from the vicinity of water." 



