L1MENITIS I. 
LIMENITIS ARTHEMIS, 1-6. 
Limenttis ArtTiemis (Ar'-the-mis), Drury. 
LAMINA Fab. 
ArtTiemis, Drury, Ulust. Exot. Ins., II., pi. 10, 1773; Say, Am. Ent., II., pi. 23, 1825; Bois. and Lee., 
p. 202, pi. 54, 1833; Harris, Ins. Mass , 3d ed., p. 283, pi. I., 1862. 
Lamina, Fab. Ent. Syst., III., p. 118, 1793; Godt., Enc. Meth., IX., p. 380, 1823. 
PROSERPINA, Edw., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil.', V., p. 148, 1865 ; But. N. Am., I., p. 127, pi. 41, 1868. 
Form LAMINA. 
Male. — Expands from 2.2 to 2.6 inches. 
Upper side brownish-black ; both wings crossed by an extra-discal white band 
which varies in breadth in individuals from three to four tenths inch ; on sec¬ 
ondaries this band is edged without by a series of blue patches, succeeded by 
rounded fulvous spots ; the margins of same wings bordered by a double row of 
lunate blue spots; primaries have an abbreviated sub-apical white stripe, and a 
single sub-marginal row of blue lunules, before which is a short row of fulvous 
spots extending from sub-costal nervure to second branch of median; sometimes 
a fulvous stripe covers more or less of the arc of cell; fringes alternately white 
and pale black. But in the markings of the upper side there will be found much 
variation in a series of examples, there sometimes being no traces of fulvous, or 
it may be wanting on one wing only ; the blue patches on secondaries may be 
either broad and confluent, or narrow and faint, or altogether wanting, or may 
be replaced by green; in some examples the whole area between the band and 
the marginal lunules is black. 
Under side brown, varying in shade in individuals; being of a pure umber, 
and without tint of fulvous over basal or apical areas, or may be wholly washed 
with ferruginous, and between these two extremes are several intermediate 
shades of color; the shoulder of each wing and the inner margin of secondaries 
ferruginous ; the band, sub-apical spots, and blue marginal lunules repeated, with 
the addition on primaries of a second and inner row of these last; in the cell of 
primaries a large rounded fulvous spot, and a bar of same color on the arc, both 
