LIMENITIS I. 
hoary white; and not unfrequently in this belt are taken individuals which have 
traces more or less distinct of a whitish band across one or both wings. I have 
occasionally taken such examples at Coalburgh, lat. 38° 20'. Dr. John Hamilton, 
of Allegheny, Penn., lat. 40° 30', writes: “During seven years I have never 
seen Arthemis in this County, and I have never seen a specimen which was cap¬ 
tured in this State. Ursula is common. Many of them, especially of the females, 
have the white band on both sides of the wing.” Dr. Hamilton sent me a pair, 
both of which show this band, the female on both sides, the male on under side 
only. 
I may mention here that the female figured as Proserpina in Volume I. of this 
work is undoubtedly a banded Ursula. It was taken in the mountains of Penn¬ 
sylvania. 
I received from Mr. Worthington 2 $ 2 9 Ursula , taken near Chicago. These 
were of large size and of the southern type, but one male and one female show 
the band very plainly on the under side of primaries. 
Examples of Ursula from Arizona differ more from those of West Virginia 
than the latter from Proserpina of the Catskills. There is a constant departure 
from the northern type as we go to the south and southwest. 
I believe, therefore, with Messrs. Whitney, Lintner, Grey, and others, that of 
these forms, Arthemis is the original; that it first gave off Proserpina in special 
localities and under some influence, perhaps of climate, but not yet determined, 
just as Papilio Turnus gave off Glaucus; and that from Proserpina has come 
Ursula , which, as it made its way south, became double-brooded, and has more 
and more diverged from its first type. 
Unfortunately I have not }^et been able to breed Ursula , and know the larva 
only from figures. As given in Abbot, it is like the larva of Proserpina in color. 
It is quite unlike that given in Boisduval and Leconte, which resembles the larva 
of Disippus. 
Arthemis is a forest species, and may be seen, in its season, either singly or in 
groups, along the roads and paths, particularly wherever there is excrementi- 
tious or decaying animal matter. When alarmed, it darts swiftly away and 
courses up and down the path, or flies into the trees, but will soon return to its 
first resting-place. It flies at some distance from the forest also, and visits or¬ 
chards for the rotten apples, and farm-houses for the chance of what it may find 
to its liking. Mr. Scudder tells us that “ the matrons of the houses in the valley 
of Peabody Diver, N. H., complain of these insects entering their kitchens in 
such number as to be a very nuisance. One of them relates how she has taken 
more than fifty on the inside of her windows on a single morning. Mr. Hill saw, 
on one occasion in the Adirondacks, a log closely packed with Arthemis standing 
