LIMENITIS I. 
not seen the Proserpina form. I have twice bred Arthemis from the egg, with 
the result fifty-nine Arthemis, but no Proserpina A 
Mr. Scudder, in Geological Report of New Hampshire, describes Arthemis as 
being exceedingly abundant in the White Mountains, as well as in northern New 
England generally, and states that its southern limits nearly coincide with the 
northern limits of Ursula (Astyanax); also that it has not been taken south of 
Massachusetts, and but rarely in that State. Nothing is said of Proserpina in 
this report, showing that the presence of this form in the State was unknown to 
the author. Mr. Morrison, who collected butterflies in the White Mountains in 
1875, did not meet with Proserpina. 
Mr. C. P. Whitney, of Milford, southern New Hampshire, says that Arthemis 
is rare in his district, and further : “ What I have called Proserpina, that is, with 
a white band across the fore wings, or traces of it, is fully as abundant here as 
Ursula, which last varies much from examples of Ursula found further south. 
I am sure that my Proserpina are a variety of Ursula — a northern form. A 
few weeks ago I received a letter from a friend saying he had seen an Arthemis 
raised from a brood of Ursula .” With this letter Mr. Whitney sent me 8<?1P 
taken at Milford. One of these males shows a broad white band across pri¬ 
maries below, and a macular stripe across same wings above; no white on either 
side of secondaries. Another shows a cluster of whitish scales in each interspace 
quite across primaries below, and a clear white spot at costal margin of second¬ 
aries ; but beyond this there is no trace of a band on secondaries, or on upper 
side of either wing. The female also has a slight band on under side of primaries, 
and faint traces on upper side ; but no white on secondaries. Three other males 
have very slight traces of the band on under side of primaries, restricted to small 
clusters of scales in the two or three posterior interspaces. The remaining ex¬ 
amples have nothing of this. The first three spoken of I have no doubt are 
true Proserpina, and probably all the others are, though they cannot be distin¬ 
guished from some examples of Ursula taken in certain districts where Arthemis 
is never known to fly. All these Milford examples, and all from the Catskills 
which I have ever examined, have this common peculiarity, that the general 
coloration of the under surface is similar to that of Arthemis, varying as this 
varies from cinnamon or ferruginous-red to chocolate-brown, exhibiting many 
shades of color. Now in Ursula from the districts in which Arthemis is unknown 
there is almost always a flush of blue-black or of green over a dark brown 
ground, though occasionally an example is ferruginous or light brown, just as 
some Arthemis are. On the other hand, now and then an example of Proser¬ 
pina from the Catskills has a flush of blue-black. I have in my cabinet such a 
Proserpina placed side by side with an Ursula taken at Coalburgh, W. Va., in 
