LIMENITIS II. 
LIMENITIS EROS. 1-4. 
Limenitis Eros , Edwards, Can. Ent., XII., p. 246, 1880. 
Male. — Expands 2.6 to 3 inches. 
Upper side dark red-brown, mahogany-color; hind margins bordered broadly 
with black, costal margins narrowly; inner margin of primaries black to the sub¬ 
median nervure ; all nervures and branches black, and narrowly edged with same 
color ; against the end of cell, on primaries, a long subtriangular black patch, its 
short side resting on costa, its apex prolonged into a stripe which reaches the 
border of hind margin below second branch of median; beyond the disk, on 
secondaries, a transverse, curved, narrow, black stripe from margin to margin; 
within the borders, and near their inner edges, a common series of white spots, 
which, on secondaries, are small and more or less obsolete; on the black triangle, 
three white spots in line, the two nearest costa large, the third minute; a white 
spot at the origin of upper subcostal interspace, and a white streak on outer side 
of costal nervure, opposite the triangle, and a little way toward base; fringes 
black, white in the middle of each interspace. 
Under side red-brown, nearly as dark as above, and of a uniform shade over 
both wings; primaries have the spots on border repeated, enlarged and crescent- 
shaped, white, with purple scales about the edges, and half way to margin is 
another series of small purplish spots, one to each interspace ; at apex these are 
round, the rest abbreviated streaks; the spots in the triangle repeated, as well 
as the markings next and on costa, all these pure white; in middle of cell, next 
subcostal, a subtriangular white spot on black ground, and a white mark along 
same nervure nearer base. 
Secondaries have the marginal spots repeated, much enlarged, crescent, and an 
obsolescent row of purplish crescents on middle of the border; the black trans¬ 
verse stripe repeated and on the inner side of same a crescent in each interspace, 
white, delicately tinted blue or purple ; these vary in individuals, and sometimes 
are obsolete, or are represented by a few white scales. 
