LIMENITIS I. 
LIMENITI8 PROSERPINA. 1—4. 
Limeniiis Proserpina , (Pros-er'-pi-na,) % , Edwards, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila. 1865, p. 148; Trans. 
Amer. Ent. Soc. I, p 286, 1867. 
Male. Expands 2.25 inches. 
Upper side black, secondaries only haying a slight bluish (occasionally green- 
ish) tinge ; hind margins of secondaries bordered by a double row of blue (or green) 
crescents ; the submarginal row is continued on primaries, but is indistinct, almost 
obsolete ; beyond the crescents, on secondaries, is a row of russet spots surmounted 
by blue (or green) scales, which are more or less conspicuous ; in some specimens 
the russet spots are distinct across the whole wing, in some two or three only are 
seen, and in others they are_altogether wanting ; the blue scales or spots make a 
circular band across secondaries, and are continued across primaries with more or 
less distinctness (often becoming whitish) to the costa, and correspond with the 
white band of under surface ; the contour of this band above is like that of Arthe- 
mis, and it terminates on the costa in a white streak ; there is also a white subapi- 
cal spot divided into two or three by the nervules; emarginations white. 
Under side brown, varying in shade from blackish to russet, and in this re- 
spect and in markings remarkably like Arthemis , except that the white band of the 
latter is here always slight and sometimes partly wanting ; both wings have a dou- 
ble row of blue (or green) crescents, preceded by a row of rounded russet spots, 
large on secondaries, and on these, edged above and below with black ; the spot at 
inner angle of primaries is wanting ; above the russet spots is a curved whitish band 
or streak, common to both wings, sometimes half the width of the band of Arthemis , 
but sometimes indicated by a few scales only above the russet spots ; the subapical 
spot and costal streak of upper side repeated conspicuously ; base of wings marked 
by russet spots edged with black ; between these are metallic blue (or green) natches 
as in Arthemis. 
Body below white ; fore legs white ; palpi white, edged with black ; antennae 
and club black, tipped with ferruginous. 
Female. Expands 2.5 inches. Similar in markings. 
This fine species I first noticed in the Catskills, in 1868, when a single male in 
not very good condition was taken. In 1867, I found it abundant in the Stoney 
Clove and from 2nd to 4th July, took several fresh specimens. In the latter part 
of July and first ten days of August 1868, I saw many more, of both sexes, both 
