LIMENITIS II. 



LIMENITIS EROS. 1-4. 

 Limenitis Eros, Edwards, Can. Ent., Xll., p. 21G, 1880. 



Male. — Expands 2.G to 3 inches. 



Upper side dark red-brown, mahogany-color ; hind margins bordered broadly 

 with black, costal margins narrowly; inner margin of primaries black to the sub- 

 median nervure ; all nervures and branches black, and narrowly edged with same 

 color ; against the end of cell, on primaries, a long subtriangular black patch, its 

 short side resting on costa, its apex prolonged into a stripe which reaches the 

 border of hind margin below second branch of median ; beyond the disk, on 

 secondaries, a transverse, curved, narrow, black stripe from margin to margin ; 

 within the borders, and near their inner edges, a common series of white spots, 

 which, on secondaries, are small and more or less obsolete; on the black triangle, 

 three white .spots in line, the two nearest costa large, the third minute ; a white 

 spot at the origin of upper subcostal interspace, and a white streak on outer side 

 of costal nervure, opposite the triangle, and a little way toward base ; fringes 

 black, white in the middle of each interspace. 



Under side red-brown, nearly as dark as above, and of a uniform shade over 

 both wings ; primaries have the spots on border repeated, enlarged and crescent- 

 .'^haped, white, with purple scales about the edges, and half way to margin is 

 another series of small purplish spots, one to each interspace ; at apex these are 

 round, the rest abbreviated streaks; the spots in the triangle repeated, as well 

 as the markings next and on costa, all these pure white ; in middle of cell, next 

 subcostal, a subtriangular white spot on black ground, and a white mark along- 

 same nervure nearer base. 



Secondaries have the marginal spots repeated, much enlarged, crescent, and an 

 obsolescent row of purplish crescents on middle of the border ; the black trans- 

 verse stripe repeated and on the inner side of same a crescent in each interspace, 

 white, delicately tinted blue or purple ; these vary in individuals, and sometimes 

 are obsolete, or are represented by a few white scales. 



