LIMENITIS II. 



Body black, the abdominal segments beneath edged with white, and a white 

 stripe along the side of abdomen ; on thorax beneath are two oblique rows of 

 three white spots each ; legs brown-black, the two lower joints of the front, or 

 aborted, pair white ; palpi black, white in front ; antennjB black, the tips ferrugi- 

 nous. (Figs. 1, 2.) 



Female. — Expands 3.2 to 3.4 inches. 



Same color as male and similarly marked ; the black triangle often shows a 

 fourth spot ; in some examples, the black cross stripe, on upper side of second- 

 aries, has white crescents on inner side, in the interspaces of anterior half the 

 wing ; there is also often a small white spot in cell of primaries next subcostal. 



Under side like the male, the marginal spots greatly enlarged ; the white 

 crescents inside the stripe almost always conspicuous and sometimes very large, 

 exceeding indeed those of the border. (Figs. 3, 4.) 



Var. Obsoleta, Edwards, Papilio, Vol. II., 22, 1882. 



Color faded ; verj^ like Danais Strlgosa, Bates ; with the characteristic white 

 spots of Eros, on the inner side of the discal band of secondaries, and on both 

 surfaces. Taken, in both sexes, by Mr. Jacob Doll, in South Arizona, October, 

 1881. 



Egg. — Shape as in Arthemis, but a little higher in proportion ; the surface 

 ■covered by reticulations which are mostly hexagonal, but some are 5, others 7- 

 sided, especially on the upper third ; these form cells which are roundly but 

 shallowly excavated, and from each angle rises a short, tapering, filamentous 

 spine ; the top a little depressed, and about the micropjde a rosette of four con- 

 centric rows of 4 and 5-sided irregular spaces ; color gray-green (Figs, a, cr, egg 

 and microp3de magnified). Duration of this stage 4 and 5 days. 



Young Larva. — Length .1 inch ; cylindrical, thickest at segments 3 and 4, 

 tapering slightly to 13 ; color light yellow-brown ; covered with fine, but irreg- 

 ular, concolored tubercles, each giving out a short, white, clubbed hair ; on 3, 

 4, 6, 11, and 12, is one pointed, conical, dark-brown tubercle on either side of 

 dorsum, that on 3 largest, on 6 next in size, the others about equal ; the seg- 

 ments from 4 to 10 have, in same rows, similar, but much smaller tubercles ; 

 these all stand on the ends of transverse ridges ; under side, feet, and pro-legs 

 yellow-brown ; head sub-globose, narrowing towards top, bilobed ; color glossy 

 brown; a few scattered hairs over the surface. (Fig. 6, 6^, magnified). Dura- 

 tion of this stage 3 and 4 days. 



After first moult: length .2 inch; similar in shape and armature to Arihemis ; 

 cylindrical, thickest at 3 to 5 ; the dorsum red-lirown. the sides and under parts 



