FAMILY HELICONIIDiB. SOS 



a ilistiiict huuile, succeeded on tlie outsiile liy interrupted curved blue lines : edge 

 trinimid with Mack and white. 

 Head and body black : the back ol' the head is marked with four white spots, the first 

 l>air placed at the base of the antennse. Antenna' black, tijiped witli rufous : palpi 

 black, striped with white on the outside. Ej'es blue, with a white spot posteriorly. 

 Each side of the thorax is marked with three large white spots : coxae white ; the 

 ventral portion of five rings, white, and an abbreviated lateral white line. Legs black : 

 tarsi of the forelegs striped with white in front. Expanse of wing varies from two 

 and a half to three inches. 

 This species is tbund accompanying the D. plexippus in the vicinity of All>any, and is 

 usually regarded as a mere variety of the same ; but the many dift'erences in the markings, 

 taken in connection with the constancy in size of the numerous individuals I have exa- 

 mined, leave no doubt of its distinct character. 



LiMEMTis iRSLL.v. ( Plate xxxiii, figs. 1 & 2.) 



Color black above, black and brownish beneath : antenna black ; knob rather slender : 

 eyes brown : head black. Behind the antenna there are two white triangular spots, 

 and a white line beneath and outside of each eye. Thorax and abdomen black above : 

 sides of the former marked with three white spots ; on the latter, the edges of the 

 rings of the venter white, and sides marked with a wide white stripe. Outside palpi 

 white : ui)perside of the imperfect forefeet white. Forewings subfalcate ; outer margin 

 slightly sinuate ; nervures of the wings with foiu: branches : posterior wings slightly 

 angulated, without tail, subtrigonal. Upper side, velvety black : forewings marked 

 witli submarginal bluish and rather obsolete lunules ; apical area marked with two 

 white triangular spots ; edge trimmed with white and black : liindw ings marked 

 w^ith two rows of pale blue quadrangular spots, the third upon the inner row from 

 the anal angle Ijeing a lunate spot. Outside of these there are two rows of sublunate 

 spots, the outer white, the inner blue ; the former are placed upon the edge. Beneath, 

 the apical area is brownish, and marked with white spots, which become obsolete as 

 they extend towards the outer angle. Base of the wing bluish in some lights, and 

 marked with two brown and four blue subcostal spots : the blue spots are >niall, and 

 stand two and two ; the margin is trimmed with two rows of lunules, and the edge 

 with white and black. Behind the disk is brownish, similar to the apical area, and 

 the base is marked w ith a cluster of rufous and blue spots. The margin in>ide has 

 five rufous spots surrounded with black, and two rows of lunules parallel with the 

 edge, which is trimmed with while :;nd black. 

 This species is found as far south as (>eorgia, yet does not appear to be coninn n any 

 where : it feeds on the gooseberry leaf and wild cherry, and is figured in Auuott and 

 Smith's Lepidoptera. 



