LIMENITIS I. 



edo-ed with black ; on either side of this spot is a blue patch, and sometimes the 

 whole space between spot and bar is blue ; secondaries have two snnilar spots m 

 cell and arc, and a third at top of sub-costal interspace, the intervening area 

 being more or less covered by blue ; the extra-discal fulvous spots of upper side 

 repeated and edged before and behind with black ; these spots are often much 

 enlarged, and sometimes are continent, forming a band that reaches quite to the 

 white one ; primaries have the fulvous spots repeated, but less distinctly, and 

 they are always confluent. 



Body brownish-black ; on the back of head are two white dots, and behind the 

 eye a white line ; on under side blue-gray hairs cover the sides of the last two 

 thoracic segments ; on abdomen a white ventral and white lateral line ; legs black, 

 the posterior sides of the femora gray-white, the anterior pair white in front ; 

 palpi white on outer and inner sides, black in front ; antennae and club black. 



Female. — Expands 2.8 inches. 



Similar to male, and varying in same manner. 



Form PROSERPINA. 



Male. — Expands from 2.2 to 2.6 inches. 



Size and shape of Lamina. Upper side black, secondaries sometimes having a 

 bluish or a greenish tint ; hind margins of both wings bordered by blue or green 

 lunate spots, precisely as in the other form ; so also are the ferruginous spots, being 

 sometimes large and sometimes wanting ; instead of the white band there is at 

 most but a whitish, macular stripe across primaries, and rarely across secondaries, 

 its position corresponding to the outer line of the band of Lamina ; sometimes 

 this stripe only appears on the posterior interspaces on primaries ; often there is 

 no trace of it whatever, unless on the costal edge where is sometimes a white 

 dash ; the subapical white line or spots always present ; the under side varies in 

 color from umber to ferruginous, and is in all respects similar to the other form, 

 except in the absence of the band ; this is often represented by a whitish stripe, 

 of rather clear color along its inner edge but gradually fading into the ground 

 of the wing in the direction of the hind margin ; occasionally this stripe becomes 

 a band nearly as broad as in Lamina, especially on primaries, but is still only 

 whitish, or gray white ; in most examples it is broken and nearly obsolete, in 

 some it is wanting altogether. 



Intermediate examples connecting the two forms have occasionally been taken. 

 One of these is figured on the Plate (Fig. 6), and is in the collection of Mr. 

 Mead. In this the band on primaries is macular throughout, and on secondaries 

 is macular, narrow, and blue-tinted : on the under side of secondaries it is nearly 



