206 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



71. Diadema Misippus, Linn. 



Expanse of wings from 2.5 to 3 inches. 



Male. — Wings dark chocolate color, almost black, 

 but when held against the light in a certain direction dis- 

 play a bluish-purple tint. The fore wings have a large 

 white oval spot in the middle, and another smaller ob- 

 long white spot at the tips. The hind wings have a 

 white spot larger than in the fore wings : on the edges 

 of all these spots the purple color is very conspicuous. 



Female. — Upper surface fulvous ; fore wings with the 

 costal and outer borders black, the latter containing two 

 rows of pale blue spots, not very distinct, near posterior 

 angle ; a white patch near apex, and a blackish shade 

 cloud obliquely across the wing at the end of the cell ; 

 veins in outer portion of wing black. Hind wings with 

 the border the same as on the fore wings, the costal in- 

 terrupted near the apex. Fringes black, white in the 

 intervenular depressions. 



The food-plant is purslane. 



Indian River, Florida. 



72. Limenitis Uksula, Fab. 



Expanse of wings 3 inches. 



Upper surface black tinged with bluish or greenish, 

 and a little with fulvous at the apex of the fore wings. 

 Along the outer margin are two rows of blue or green 

 spots, the outer in the form of crescents, the inner 

 lunules. 



Under side brownish black, the outer border repeated, 

 preceded by a row of black and a row of fulvous spots, 

 some of the latter obsolete near the posterior angle. 



