LIMENITIS I. 



hoary white ; and not unfrequenth' in this belt are taken individuals which have 

 traces more or less distinct of a whitish band across one or both wings. I liave 

 occasionally taken such examples at Coalburgh, lat. 38° 20'. Dr. John Hamilton, 

 of Allegheny, Penn., lat. 40" 30', writes: "During seven yeai-s I have never 

 seen Artliemls in this County, and I have never seen a specimen wliich was cap- 

 tured in this State. Ursula is counnon. Many of them, especially of the females, 

 have the white band on l^oth sides of the wing." Dr. Hamilton sent me a pair, 

 both of which show this band, the female on both sides, the male on under side 

 only. 



I may mention here that the female figured as Proserpina in "\'olume I. of this 

 work is undoubtedly a banded Ursula. Tt was taken in the mountains of Penn- 

 svlvania. 



I received from Mr. Wortlilnu-ton 2 c? 2 9 Ursula, tali^en near Chicao-o. These 

 were of large size and of the soutliem type, Imt one uiale mid one female show 

 the band very plainly on the under side of primaries. 



Examples of Ursula from Arizona diller more from tliose of West Virginia 

 than the latter from Proserjnna of the (Jatskills. There is a constant departure 

 from the northern type as we go to the south and southwest. 



I believe, therefore, with Messrs. Whitney, Liutner, Gre\-. and otiiers, that of 

 these forms, Arthemis is the original ; that it first gave off Proserjnna in special 

 localities and under some influence, perhaps of climate, but not A'ct determined, 

 just as Papilio Turnus gave oft' Glaucus ; and that from Proserpina has come 

 Ursula, which, as it made its way south, became douldc-In-ooded, and has more 

 and more diverged from its first type. 



Unfortunately I have not yet l)een able to breed Ursula, and know the larva 

 only from figures. As given in Abl)ot. it is like the larva of Proserpina in color. 

 It is quite imlike that given in IJoisduval and Leconte, which resembles the larva 

 of Disippus. 



Arthemis is a forest species, and may be seen, in its season, either singly or in 

 groups, along the roads and paths, particularly wherever there is excrementi- 

 tious or decaying animal matter. When alarmed, it darts swiftly away and 

 courses up and down the path, or tlies into the trees, but will soon return to its 

 first resting-place. It flies at some distance from the forest also, and visits or- 

 chards for the rotten apples, and farm-houses for the chance of what it may find 

 to its liking. Mr. Scudder tells us that " the matrons of the houses in the valley 

 of Peabody Piiver, N. H., complain of these insects entering their kitchens in 

 such numlier as to be a very nuisance. One of them relates how she has taken 

 more than fifty on the inside of her windows on a single morning. Mr. Hill saw, 

 on one occasion in the i^dirondacks, a log closely packed with Arthemis standing 



