N^^MPHALIS (LIMENITIS) ARTHEMIS. 



Plate X. %. 3, 4. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section : Diurna. Family : NymphalidEe, Sw. 



Genus. Nymphalis, Latr. Papilio (Nymphal. Phal.), Linn. Drury, ^c. Subgenus : Limenitia. 

 Fabr. Steph. 



Nymphalis (Limenitis) Arthemis. Alis flentatis fuscis ; utrinque fascia communi alba strigiaque duabua 

 lunularum coeiulescentium, siibtus rufo-inaculatis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lia. — 3 unc.) 



Syn. Papilio (Nymplial. Plial.) Arthemis, Di-ury, Append, vol. 2. Say. Amer. Entomol. 2. pi. 23. 

 Papilio Lamina, Fabr. Ent. Si/st. 111. 1. p. 118. 361. Eitc. MHh. ix.p. 380. (Nymphalis L.) 

 Habitat ; New York. 



Upper Side. Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen black. Wings black, at the base surrounded 

 by a white band, separating it from the external part, which is black likewise. On the anterior wings, 

 near the tips, are four small white spots, the two uppermost being largest ; along the external edges 

 is a narrow marginal row of small blue crescents, continued along the jiosterior wings, where it is 

 double, having above it a row of brown orange spots, verged at top with blue. A white bar begins on 

 the middle of the anterior edges of the anterior wings, which, crossing them and the posterior, ends at the 

 extremity of the body. 



Thider Side. Palpi, head, breast, and legs brown. The parts that on the upper side are black, are 

 of a fine red brown. The basal parts having some brown orange spots on both wings, verged with black. 

 Margins blue ; scoUopings edged with white. Margins of the wings dentated ; the inferior ones most. 



Mr. Say observes of this beautiful species that it occurred sparingly in the North- 

 western territory, during the advance of Major Long-'s expedition towai-d Lake Winnepec. 

 He also found it at that lake as well as at the Lake of the Woods, and in other parts of 

 Upper Canada. He procured specimens likewise from Arkansaw, in the expedition to the 

 llocky Mountains, and received it from Cambridge (Massachusetts). 



PIERIS EUCHARIS. 



Plate X. fig. 6, 6. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: PapilionidsB, Leach. 



Genus. Pieris, Scfiranh. Latr. God. Boisduval. Pontia p. Ochs. Papilio (Dan. Cand. or Heliconii), Linn. 



Drury, §-e. 



Pieris Edcharis. Alis suboblongis integerrimis, supra albis, omnibus utrinque venis limboque nigris : posticis 

 subtiis flavis, maculis raarginalibus coecineis alboque cinctis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 2 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (Dan. Cand.) Eueharis, Drury, App. vol. -i. Cramer, pi. 201. B.C. $. 202. C. J. 

 Papilio (D. C.) Hyparete, Fair. .En*. Syst. \U.\.p. 176. (Exclus. Syn. Linn.) 

 Pieris Epicharis, God. Enc. MHh. ix. p. 153. No. 122. Boisd. Hist. N. Lepid. I. p. 456. 



Habitat : Bombay. 



Upper Side. Antenna? black. Head grey. Thorax and abdomen grey. Anterior wings white : 

 nerves black, with seven white oblong spots placed along the external edges and tips on a black ground. 

 Posterior wings cream-coloured, with six oval flesh-coloured spots placed along the posterior margin on 

 a black ground, separated by the black nerves. 



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