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Limenitis arthemis. Nynvphalis art hemis ( Drury). (Plate xliii, figs. 2 - 9.) 



Wings black, marked by a broad white band common to both pair, reaching very nearly 

 to the margins : apical portion marked with three white spots, to which a fourth is 

 sometimes added. Beneath, the basal portion is black, perhaps greenish, and orna- 

 mented with a cluster of brown spots and bluish green bars situated near the base : 

 at the apex there are three white spots. Posterior wings beneath are marked with six 

 or seven brown spots outside of the white band : margin trimmed with white, black 

 and blue. The last-mentioned spots are in two parallel lines, and bear the form some- 

 what of lunules. 



The anterior pair of feet are white before : abdomen black, and the venter has a yellow 

 stripe on the specimen before me. 

 This species seems to have a wide range ; beiug found as far north as Lake Winnepec, 



and south into Virginia. 



Argynnis aphrodite. 



Stipe of the antennse long, buff-brown ; knob black. Head and body buff, with black upon 

 the thorax and upper side of the abdomen. Color of the wings bright buff-yellow or 

 fulvous : (brewings spotted and banded with black, and both pair darker at base as 

 well as hairy. In front there are six or seven black subcostal bands : the four from 

 the base are connected with a zigzag band which extends across the wing ; or they 

 may be regarded as a connected series of lunules, having in front of their concavities 

 a row of six round black spots, beyond which is a regular row of seven lunules 

 smaller than the former : margin trimmed and edged with two black lines, which 

 are dilated where they cross a nervure. Hindwings marked with distant rows of lu- 

 uules, between which there is a row of roundish spots : they are trimmed and edged 

 like the forewings. Beneath paler, and the subcostal bands are more distinct : there 

 is a double row of lunules, with three spots between. At the apex, the black spots 

 and lunules of the upper sides are replaced by silvery ones. Hindwings, base deeper 

 colored than the wide margins, and ornamented with three parallel rows of bright 

 silvery spots, and several more which cluster at the base : among the rows, there are 

 small silvery spots scattered about without order : margin trimmed with a plain 

 brown band edged with black. The silvery spots are surrounded with a black ring 

 wholly or in part ; and there is a straight line also on the forewings, between the 

 third and fourth subcostal bands. Expanse of wing, 2| inches. 

 This species si very common in the western part of Massachusetts and Eastern New- 

 York. 



