LIMENITIS I. 



not seen the Proserpina form. I have twice bred Arfhemis from the egg, with 

 the result fifty-nine Arthemis, but no Proserpina^ 



Mr. Scudder, in Geological Report of New Hampshire, describes Arthemis as 

 being exceedingly abundant in the White Mountains, as well as iu northern New 

 England generally, and states that its southern limits nearly coincide with the 

 northern limits of Ursjtla {Astyanax) ; also that it has not been taken south of 

 Massachusetts, and but rarely in that State. Nothing is said of Proserpnna in 

 this report, showing that the presence of this form in the State was unknown to 

 the author. Mr. Morrison, who collected buttertlies in the White Mountains iu 

 1875, did not meet with Proserj^hia. 



Mr. C. P. Whitney, of Millbrd, southern New Hampshire, says that Arthemis 

 is rai-e in his district, and further : " What I have called Proserjnna, that is, with 

 a white band across the fore wings, or traces of it, is fully as abundant here as 

 Ursula, which last varies much from examples of Ursida found further south. 

 I am sure that my Proserjnna are a variety of Ursula — a northern form. A 

 few weeks ago I received a letter from a friend saying ho had seen an Arfhemis 

 raised from a brood of Ursula." With this letter Mr. Whitney sent me 8(?1P 

 taken at Milford. One of these males shows a broad white band across pri- 

 maries below, and a macular stripe across same wings above ; no white on either 

 side of secoudaries. xinother shows a cluster of whitish scales in each interspace 

 quite across primaries below, and a clear white spot at costal margin of second- 

 aries ; but beyond this there is no trace of a band on secondaries, or on upper 

 side of either wiug. The female also has a slight band ou under side of priuiaries, 

 and taint traces on upper side ; but no white on secondaries. Three other males 

 have very slight traces of the band on under side of primaries, restricted to suiall 

 clusters of scales in the two or three posterior interspaces. The remaining ex- 

 amples have nothing of this. The first three spoken of I have no doubt are 

 true Proserptina, and probably all the others are, though they cannot be distin- 

 guished from some examples of Urmia taken in certain districts where Arthemis 

 is never known to fly. All these Milford examples, and all from the Catskills 

 which I have ever examined, have this common peculiarity, that the general 

 coloration of the imder surflice is similar to that of Arthemis, varying as this 

 varies from cinnamon or ferruginous-red to chocolate-brown, exhibiting many 

 shades of color. Now in Ursula from the districts in which Arthemis is unknown 

 there is almost always a flush of blue-black or of green over a dark brown 

 ground, though occasionally an example is ferruginous or light brown, just as 

 some Arthemis are. On the other hand, now and then an example of Proser- 

 pina from the Catskills has a flush of blue-black. I have in my cabinet such a 

 Proserpina placed side by side with an Ursula taken at Coalburgh, W. Va., in 



