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Euphcedra perseis (Drury) is brown, with large yellowish- 

 white spots on the fore-wings, and the inner-margin and the 

 iiind-wings, except the borders, are rose-coloured. E. zampa 

 (Westwood) is green above, with a short whitish oblique streak 

 near the tip of the fore-wings ; it has large white sub-marginal 

 spots on the hind-wings, and more or less of the base of the 

 hind-wings, and the greater part of the wings beneath are dull 

 orange. JS. harpalyce (Cramer) and its allies are brown above, 

 with or without a transverse white or yellow stripe near the tip 

 of the fore-wings, or they show a broad blue sub-marginal stripe 

 on the hind-wings, tapering to the costa ; the under side is 

 green. Other species are velvety black above, with more or 

 less of bronzy green on the wings, and the dark apex of the 

 fore-wings crossed by a white or yellow stripe ; the base of the 

 wings is generally rose-red below, and sometimes above ; in 

 E. xypete (Hewitsoi?) the greater part of the under side of the 

 hind-wings is crimson. 



Neogean Species. 



Several species of true Limenitis are met with in the United 

 States. They are generally larger Butterflies than their Euro- 

 pean representatives, measuring about three inches across the 

 wings, which are black, often with a white bar across, and with 

 red spots on the under side, and sometimes also above. Most 

 of the species have the wings more dentated than those of 

 the Old World, and sometimes angulated. The prevailing 

 colour is black or dark brown, with bluish markings ; but 

 L. archippus (Cramer) forms an exception. It is of a rich 

 tawny or fulvous colour, with conspicuous black nervures, and 

 except that it is considerably smaller, it closely resembles 

 Anosia menippe, Hiibner, belonging to the Danaintz, the 

 commonest and best protected of all the North American 

 Butterflies. 



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