LIMENITIS II. 
LIMENITIS WEIDEMEYERII. 1—4. 
Limenitis Weidemeyerii , Edwards, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1861. 
Male. Expands 2.6 inches. 
Upper side brownish -black with a broad, common, white band a little beyond 
the middle of wings, bent towards costa on primaries and tapering posteriorly on 
secondaries, divided into long spots by the black nervures ; outside the band, on 
secondaries, a row of fulvous spots more or less obsolete ; on both wings a submar- 
ginal series of small white spots, minute or obsolete on secondaries; anterior to 
these, on costal margin of primaries, a short, transverse row of four white spots, 
the second from costa largest, the fourth minute. 
Under side paler with the band and costal spots as above ; the fulvous spots 
on secondaries large ; a common, sub-marginal series of large lunules, (bluish- 
white except towards apex, where the inner portion is white,) cut transversely and 
unequally by a crenated black line that is parallel to the margin ; on primaries a 
ferruginous bar upon the arc, followed within the cell successively by blue atoms, 
a bluish-white bar, ferruginous patch, and the blue atoms near base ; costa ferru- 
ginous ; on secondaries, the entire abdominal margin up to median and the costa 
next base, bluish-white, the nervures being heavy and black ; rest of basal space 
between costal and median blue-grey, crossed irregularly by black stripes. 
Body above black, abdomen beneath white, with a white stripe laterally ; 
legs black, white on under side ; palpi white, black above ; antennae and club black. 
Female. Expands 3 inches ; similar in colors and markings to male. 
Larva unknown. 
Found in Colorado ; common in vicinity of Pike’s Peak, according to Mr. 
Bidings, who collected in that region in 1864. 
