NYMPHALINAE: BASILARCHIA ARCHIPPUS. 267 



Table of species, hosed on the imago. 



Grouml color of wings orange archippus. 



Ground color of wings black. 



Wings without any white bow astyanax. 



Wings with a very broad, conspicuous, common, wlnte bow arthemis. 



(Wings with a narrow and faint, bluish white bow Proserpina.) 



BASILARCHIA ARCHIPPUS— The viceroy. 



[The viceroy (Scudder) ; Disippe butterfly (Harris) ; Disippus butterflv (Riley) ; stripe-footed 

 limenite (Emmons) ; Misippus butterfly (Fitch) ; the dark veinlet (Ross) ; the banded red 

 butterfly (Maynard) ; viceroy butterfly (Packard).] 



Paj?j7io aj-c/iipi^ws Cram., Pap. exot.,i: 24, Nymphalis disippus Boisd.-LeC, L6p. 



pi. 16, figs. A. B. (1779). Am^r. sept., 204-205; pi. 55, figs. 1-4 (1833) ;—' 



Limenitis archippus Butl., Catal. Fabr. Morr., Syn. Lep. N. Amer., G5-66 (18G2), 



Lep., 60-61 (1869). Limenitis disippus Westw.-Hew., Gen 



Basilarchia archippus Scudd., Bull. Burt". diurn. Lep., ii: 276 (1850) ;— Emm , A^-ric N 



soc. nat. sc, ii: 250 (1875); Butt., 100-104, 112, York., v: 202-203, pi. 47, figs. 1-2 (1854) •— 



133, figs. 2, 85, 86 (1881). Lintn., Proc. Entom. soc.°Philad., iii: '63 



Anosia archippe Hiibn., Verz. schmett,, 16 (1864) ;— Saund., Can, ent., i: 94-95 (1869);— 



<1816). Ril,, Can. ent., iii : 52-53, 117-118 (1871) ; Rep. 



Papilio misippus Fabr., Syst. entom., 481 ins. Missouri, iii: 153-157, figs. 68-71 (1871);— 



(1775);— Herbst,Natursyst. ins. schmett., vii: French, Rep. ins. 111., vii:°154 (1878); Butt. 



30-31, pi. 158, figs. 3-4 (1794) ;— Abb., Draw. east. U. S., 210-213, figs. 59-62 (1886) -—Ed vv ' 



ins. Ga. Brit, mus., vi : 23, figs. 22-23 ; xvi : 24, Can. ent., xi : 224-228 (1879) ; xii : 250-251, fl<^! 



tab. 4; Draw. ins. Ga. Oemler Coll. Bost. soc. 24bc (1880); Butt. N. Am., ii: Limenitis 1- 



nat. hist., 15. [12-17] (i879) ; -Middl., Rep. ins. 111., x : 88, 



Nymphalis misippus God., ^ncyc\. mah., fig. 14 a-d (1881) ;—Coq., ibid 162 &^ 59 



ix: 175,188,806(1819). (1881) ;-Fern., Butt. Me., 65^67 (1884) — 



Limenitis misippus Harr., Hitchc. Rep., Saund., Ins. inj. fruits, 168-171, fio-s. 178-181 



590 (1833) ; Proc. Bost. soc. nat. hist., vii : 189- (1883) ; — Mayn., Butt. N". E., 9, pi! 2, figs. 9, 



190 (1860) ;— Fitch, 3d Rep. noxious ins. N. Y.. 9a (1886) ;— Soule, Psyche, v : 14,' 43 "(18881 



61-62 (1859) ;-Pack., Guide ins., 261-262, fig. Papilio jamaicensis minor Rai, Hist ins 



189 (1869) ; — Mead, Can. ent., iv: 216-217 139(1710). 

 (1872). 



Nymphalis disippe God., Encycl. m6th., ix : Figured by Petiver, Gazophvl., i, pi. 15, fia 



340, 393-394 (1819) ;— Harr., Ins. inj. veg., 3d 9 (ca. 1700) ;-Glover, III. N. A. Lep , pi l' fi°' 



ed., 281-282, fig. 109 (1862). 9 (2 figs.) ; pi. 22, fig. 15 (2 fig. hibern.) ; pL £ 



Limenitis disippe M6u6tr., Catal. coll. figs. 1, 8; pl. 100, fig. 26 (2 fig. hibern.) • pi 108 



entom. Acad., i : 33 (1855) . fig. 7 ; pl. A., fig. 11, ined. 



^a.j;«rcAi«cZ^.ip;,eScudd.,Syst.rev.Amer. ^^^ p ^,5^ ^j.j j^inu.] 



butt., 8 (1872). '^ ■■ 



Go sip the rose's fragrant dew. 



The lily's honey'd cup explore, 

 From flower to flower the search renew, 



And rifle all the woodbine's store : 

 And let me trace thy vagrant flight. 



Thy moments, too, of short repose. 

 And mark thee then with fresh delight 



Thy golden pinions ope and close. 



The Butterfly's Birthday. 



Truly, she makes a very good 

 report 0' the worm ; but he that will believe all 

 that they say, shall never be saved bv half that 

 they do : Ijut this is most fallible, the worm's an 

 odd worm. 



Shakespeare.- Antony and Cleopatra. 



Imago (1:5; 11 : 4). Head velvety black, tinged above in the least possible degree 



•with olivaceous ; a pair of small, M'hite, triangular spots on the hinder margin of the 



head and a pair of wliite dots next the eye, each set opposite the base of the antennae ; 



a larger, fusiform, narrow, white spot behind each eye. Antennae black, the basal 



