294 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAXU. 



BASIL ARCHIA ARTHEMIS.— The banded purple. 



[The banded purple (Gosse) ; Artemis limenite (Einmons); circled emperor (Ross) ; white 

 banded butterfly (Mayuard) ; sylvan Basilarchia (Scudder).] 



Nymphalis phal. arthemis Drury, 111. nat. Morr., Syn. Lep. N. Amer., 65(1862); — Harr., 



hist., ii : 17, pi. 10, figs. 3-4 (1773). Ins. inj. veg., 3d ed., 283-284, pi. 1, fig. 7 (1862). 



Papilio «r</iemzs Goeze, Entom.beytr., iii: Nymx>hulis (Limenitis) arthemis Westw., 



1,375(1779). Drury, Exot. entom., ii: 19, pi. 10, figs. 3-4 



Limenitis arthemis Say, Amer. entom., ii, (1837). 



pi. 23 (1825); Entom. N. Amer. ed. LeConte, Basilarchia arthemis Scudd., Syst. rev. 



i : 49-50, pi. 23 (1859);— Blanch.-BrullC, Hist. Amer. butt., 8 (1872); Appal., ii: 331-336 



uat. ins., iii : 451 (1840) ;— Gosse, Can. nat., 220- (1881) . 



221, 3 figs. (1840);— Lintn., Proc. Entom. soc. Nymphalis artemis Doubl., Catal. Lep. 



rhilad., iii: 62-63 (1864) ;— Ross, Butt. Can., Brit, nius., i : 96-97(1844). 



7, fig. (1873); — Edw., Can. ent., xi: 224-228 Limenitis artemis Fekl., Neues Lep., 29 



(1879); xiii: 237-242 (1881); Butt. N. A., ii, (1861). 



Lini. i: (1-20), pi. Lim.l (1880); — Middl., Rep. Limenitis Ursula var. arthemis [Hulst], 



ins. 111., X : 88 (1881) ;— Heust., Can. ent., xv = Bull. Brookl. ent. soc, vi : 7 (1883). 



57-58 (1883) ;— Fern., Butt. Me., 02-64 (1884) ;— Papilio lamina Fabr., Entom. syst., iii : 118 



Mayn., Butt. N. E., 10-11, pi. 1, figs. 11, 11a (1793). 



(1886) ;_ French, Butt. east. U. S., 208-210 Ni/mphalis lamina God., Encyc\.m&t]i.,ix: 



(1886). 336,380(1810). 



Nymphalis arthemis Boisd.-LeC, L6p. Figui-edby Glover,Ill. N. A. Lep.,pl. 31fig. 



Am6r. sept., 202-203, pi. 54, figs. 1-3 (1833) ; — 5, ined. 



Mark, while he moves amid the sunny beam. 

 O'er his soft wings the varying lustres gleam. 

 Launched into air, on purple plumes he soars. 

 Gay nature's face with wanton glance explores ; 

 Proud of his varying beauties wings his way. 

 And spoils the fairest flowers, himself more fair than they. 



Quoted by Haioorth. 



Hearing you praised, I say ' 'Tis so, 'tis true'. 

 And to the most of praise add something more. 



Shakespeare.— Sonnet, 



Imago (2:5). Head covered with very dark olivaceous brown hairs with a small 

 triangular white spot at the extreme back of the head, behind the base of each antenna ; 

 behind and adjoining the middle of the eye a narrow white streak, about half as long 

 as the eye, partially obscured by brownish scales ; occasionally a few pale hairs in front 

 of the base of each antennae. Antennae uniformly velvety black, the extreme tip dull 

 dark luteous or reddish. Palpi covered with dark olivaceous brown hairs, excepting on 

 the apical two-thirds of the outer surface of the basal joint, and the lower outer half, 

 as far as the middle of the under surface, of the other joints, which are clothed with 

 white scales and hairs, slightly obscured by a few brownish hairs. Tongue very dark 

 brown, blackish toward the base. 



Thorax covered with very dark brown hairs, olivaceous when viewed from the 

 side ; a small white spot at the extreme base of each wing. Fore femora olivaceous 

 brown, Avith a slender, faint, median line of white beneath ; fore tibiae and tarsi cov- 

 ered with white scales and hairs, excepting on the inner side which is olivaceous 

 brown ; other legs dark castaneous brown, covered with mingled brownish and dirty 

 white scales, the latter most abundant on the under surface of the femora and tibiae; 

 coxae fringed exteriorly with long, pale, bluish wliitc hairs and tipped with silvery 

 Avhite; spines dark brown ; claws reddish brown ; paronychia pale testaceous, reddish 

 toward the tip ; pulvillus dark brown. 



Wings above velvety chocolate black. Fore wings entirely resembling those of 

 B. astyanax in form, but differing from those of B. archippus in their more curved costal 

 and outer margin. Third superior subcostal nervule arising a little less than half 



