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THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW EXGLAXD. 



LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS.-BASILABCHIA ARCHIFPUS. 



Egg- 

 PI. 64, fig. 13. Coloretl. 

 67:9. Micropyle. 



Caterpillar. 

 PI. 70, fig. 7. Caterpillar at birth. 



74:19,24. Full grown caterpillars. 



22. Outline showing attitude. 

 78: 31-35. Front view of head in stages i-v. 

 81 : 7, 8. Leaves as eaten by the young 

 caterpillar. 

 86:58. Dermal appendage of body, first 

 stage. 



.59. Dermal appendage of body, sec- 

 ond stage. 



L'hrysalis. 

 PI. S3, fig. 18. Outline, dorsal view. 



19. Outline, side view. 



20. Colored, side view. 



Imago. 

 PI. 1, fig. 5. Male, both surfaces. 

 11: 4. Both surfaces. 

 33 : 11, 12. Male abdominal appendages. 

 61 : 25. Outline of wings of a battered 

 specimen. 



28. Papilla of tongue. 

 General. 

 PI. 19, fig. 2. Distribution in North America. 

 88 : 5. Limueria limenitidis, a parasite. 



BASILARCHIA ASTYANAX.— The red spotted purple. 



rple buttertiy (Packard) ; orange spotted but- 

 Ephestion butterfiy (Harris) ; Ursula butter- 

 butterfly (Emmons).] 



vi: 35, fig. 16; 36, fig. 17: xvi: 23, tab. 3;— 

 Smith-Abb., Lep. ins. Ga., i: 19-20, pi. 10 

 (1797). 



Nymphalis ursxdu God., Encycl. m6th., ix: 

 337, 380-381 (1819) ;— Eoisd.-LeC, L6p. Ani6r. 

 sept., 199-201, pi. 53, figs. 1-4 (1833) ;— Morr., 

 Syn. Lep. N, Amer., 64-65 (1862). 



Limenitis Ursula Westw.-Hew., Gen. diuru. 

 Lep., ii: 276 (1850) ; — Emm., Agric. N. York, 

 V : 203, pi. 33, figs. 1-2 (1854) ;— Harr., Eutom. 

 corresp., 276-277, pi. 4, fig. 15 (1869) ;— Kil., 

 Can. eut., iii : 52-53, fig. 24, 117-118 (1871) ;— 

 Mead, Can. ent., iv : 216-217 (1872) ;— French, 

 llep. ins. 111., vii: 154 (1878); Butt. east. U. S., 

 206-207, fig. 58(1886);— Middl., Rep. ins. 111., 

 X : 87 (1881) ;— Coii., ibid., 162 (1881) ;— Saund., 

 Ins. inj. fruit, 217-218, fig. 223 (1883) ;— Mayu., 

 Butt. N. E., 9-10, pi. 1. figs. 10, 10a (1886). 



Figured by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 33, 

 fig. 8 ; pi. 91, fig. 22 ; pi. A, fig. 12, ined. 



If I were thou, O ))utterfly, 

 And poised my purple wings to spy 

 The sweetest flowers that live and die, 

 I would not waste my strength on those. 

 As thou, — for summer hath a close, 

 And pansies bloom not in the snows. 



Browning.— Wisdom Unapplied. 



Imago (2:8). Head blackish brown; on the posterior border, just behind the base 

 of each antenna, a minute triangular white patch, the apex directed forward ; eyes bor- 

 dered posteriorly with white, rather broadly beloAv, narrowing to a point above, com- 

 mencing below just Mdicre the base of the tibia of the retracted fore legs strikes the 

 eye, terminating above a little beneath the superior triangular spot. Antennae uniform 

 blackish brown throughout, the minute terminal joint of the club dull orange lutcous, 

 the succeeding four or five joints more or less tinged with the same, especially beneath. 

 Palpi blackish brown ; a broad median line of white scales, narrowing above, lines the 

 inner side to the very tip ; the outer upper half of the basal joint is white, and a very 



[Red spotted purple (Gosse) ; red spotted pu 

 terfly (Ross) ; blue-banded butterfly (Maynard) ; 

 fly (Saunders) ; wildcherry limenite ; gooseberry 



Papilio astijanax Fabr., Syst. entom., 447 

 (1775). 



Limenitis ast)jaua.c Butl., Catal. Fabr. 

 Lep., 60 (1869). 



Basilarchia astyunax Scudd., Syst. rev. 

 Amer. butt., 8 (1871). 



Papilio ephestion StolT, Suppl. Cram., Pap. 

 exot., 121, pi. 25, figs. 1, la (1"91). 



Najas turbida ephestion "liibn., Sannnl. 

 exot. schmett., i, Lep. i, Pap. i, Nymph, v, 

 Najades C, turbidae b, figs. 1-2 (1806-19). 



Nymphalis ephestion God., Encycl. m6th., 

 ix: 17, 42-43, 804 (1819) ;— Harr., Ins. inj. veg., 

 3d ed., 283 (1862). 



Limenitis ephestion Harr., Ilitchc. Rep., 

 590 (1833). 



(Jallianira ephestiacnu Iliibn., Verz. 

 schmett., 38 (1816). 



Papilio iirsida Fabr., Entom. syst., iii : 82- 

 83 (1793);— Abb., Draw. ins. Ga. Brit, nius., 



