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JUNONIA, Doubleday. 



43. (226.) JUNONIA COENIA, Hub. The Coenia Butterfly. The 



Buckeye. 



Junonia coenia, Morris, Lep. N. A., 1862, 61. 

 Packard, Guide, 1883, 261. 

 French, But. E. U. S., 1886, 200, fig. 56. 

 Scudder, But. E. U. S. and Can., 1889, I, 494; 



III, pis. 14, 21, 64, 74, 83. 

 Cynthia lavinia, Harris, Ins. Inj , 1862, 293. 

 Junonia lavinia, French, Sev. Rep. St. Ent. 111., 1878, 154. 

 A showy insect, abundant in the Southern States, and rarely found as 

 far north as Lake County, Indiana, where it has been taken by Worth- 

 ington. * Single specimens have also been secured in Jefferson and 

 Vigo counties, and a few in Vanderburgh. 



It flies from June to November in open fields and low meadows where 

 flowers are abundant. Food plants, plantain, gerardia and snapdragon. 



LIMENITIS, Fabricius. 



44. (236.) LIMENITIS URSULA, Fab. The Ursula Butterfly. The 



Red-spotted Purple. 



NympMis Ursula, Morris, Lep. N. A., 1862, 64. 

 Isimenitis Ursula, French, Sev. Rep. St. Ent. 111., 1878, 154. 

 Id., But. E. U. S., 1886, 206, fig. 58. 

 Packard, Guide, 1883, 262. 

 Blatchley, Ind. Farmer, 1887, April 23. 

 Basilarchia astyanax, Scudder, But. E. U. S. and Can., 1889, I, 



280 ; III, pis. 2, 19, 64, 74, 83. 

 Nymphali* epliestion, Harris, Ins. Inj., 1862, 283. 

 Limenitis ephestion, Packard, Guide, 1883, 262. 



Common in the central and southern half of the State, less so in the 

 north. Its usual resorts are the vicinity of streams and about muddy 

 places in roads, although it is often seen in orchards and gardens. It 

 winters in the larva state and is most common as imago in June and the 

 latter half of August. The food plants of the larvae are willow, wild 

 cherry, apple, plum, oak and ironwood. 



45. (237.) LIMENITIS ARTHEMIS, Drury. The Banded Purple But- 



terfly. 

 NympMis arthemis, Harris, Ins. Inj., 1862, 283, pi. I, fig. 7. 



Morris, Lep. N. A., 1862, 65. 

 Limenitis arthemis, Edwards, But. N. A., II, 1884. 



Packard, Guide, 1883, 262. 



French, But. E. U. S., 1886, 208. 



