LBIENITIS I. 



LLMEXrnS ARTHExAIIS, 1-6. 



Limenilk Arlliemis (Ar'-the-mis), Drury. 

 LAMINA Fab. 



ArUietiiis, Drury, Illiist. Exot. Ins., II., pi. 10, 177.'i; Say, Am. Ent., II., pi. 2;!, 1825; Bois. and Lee, 

 p. 202, pi. .54, 183;S; Harris, Ins. Mass , 3(1 ed., p. 2S3, pi. L, 18fi2. 



Lamhm, Fab. Ent. .Syst, III., p. 118, 17!)3; Godt., Enc. Mi-tli., IX., p. 380, 1823. 



PROSERPINA, Edw., Proo. Ent. Soc. Pbil., V., p. I4S, 18tJ/-) ; But. N. Am., I., p. 127, pi. 41, 1868. 



Form LAMINA. 



Male. — Expands from 2.2 to 2.6 inches. 



Upper side Ijrownisli-black ; both wings crossed by an extra-discal white Ijand 

 which varies in breadth in individuals from three to four tenths incli ; on sec- 

 ondaries this band is edged without by a series of bhie patches, succeeded by 

 rounded fulvous spots ; the margins of same wings bordered by a double row of 

 lunate blue spots ; primaries have an abbreviated snb-apical Avbite strijie. and a 

 sintjle sub-inaro'inal row of blue lunules. l)efore wliich is a short row of fulvous 

 sjiotfii extending from sub-costal nervure to second branch of median ; sometimes 

 a fulvous stripe covers more or less of the tire of cell ; fringes alternately white 

 and pale black. But in the markings of the upper side there will be found much 

 variation in a series of examples, there sometimes being no traces of fulvous, or 

 it may be wanting on one wing only ; the blue patches on secondaries may be 

 either broad and confluent, or narrow and faint, or altogether wanting, or may 

 be replaced by green ; in some examples the whole area between the band and 

 the marginal lunules is black. 



Under side brown, varying in shade in individuals ; being of a pure umber, 

 and without tint of fulvous over basal or apical areas, or may be wholly washed 

 with ferruginous, and between these two extremes are several intermediate 

 shades of color ; the shoulder of each wing and the inner margin of secondaries 

 ferruginous ; the band, sub-apical spots, and blue marginal lunules repeated, with 

 the addition on primaries of a second and inner row of these last ; in the cell of 

 primaries a large rounded fulvous spot, and a bar of same color on the arc, both 



