LIMENITIS II. 
Body black, the abdominal segments beneath edged with white, and a white 
stripe along the side of abdomen; on thorax beneath are two oblique rows of 
three white spots each; legs brown-black, the two lower joints of the front or 
aborted, pair white; palpi black, white in front; antennae black, the tips ferrugi¬ 
nous. (Figs. 1, 2.) ° 
Female. — Expands 3.2 to 3.4 inches. 
Same color as male and similarly marked; the black triangle often shows a 
fourth spot; m some examples, the black cross stripe, on upper side of second¬ 
aries, has white crescents on inner side, in the interspaces of anterior half the 
wing ; there is also often a small white spot in cell of primaries next subcostal. 
Under side like the male, the marginal spots greatly enlarged; the white 
crescents inside the stripe almost always conspicuous and sometimes very laro-e 
exceeding indeed those of the border. (Figs. 3, 4.) ° ’ 
Var. Obsoleta, Edwards, Papilio, Vol. II., 22, 1882. 
Color faded ; very like Danais Strirjosa, Bates; with the characteristic white 
spots of Eros, on the inner side of the discal band of secondaries, and on both 
surfaces. Taken, in both sexes, by Mr. Jacob Doll, in South Arizona, October 
looL. 
Egg — Shape as in Arthemis, but a little higher in proportion; the surface 
covered by reticulations which are mostly hexagonal, but some are 5, others 7- 
sided, especially on the upper third ; these form cells which are roundly but 
s Killowly excavated, and from each angle rises a short, tapering, filamentous 
spine ; the top a little depressed, and about the micropyle a rosette of four con¬ 
centric rows of 4 and 5-sided irregular spaces ; color gray-green (Figs, a, a 2 , e«-.. 
and micropyle magnified). Duration of this stage 4 and 5 days. 
Iouxg Larva. — Length .1 inch; cylindrical, thickest at segments 3 and 4 
tapering slightly to 13; color light yellow-browrt; covered with fine, but irreo-- 
ular, concolored tubercles, each giving out a short, white, clubbed hair; on 3, 
, , 1, and 12, is one pointed, conical, dark-brown tubercle on either side of 
dorsum, that on 3 largest, on 6 next in size, the others about equal; the seg¬ 
ments from 4 to 10 have, in same rows, similar, but much smaller tubercles • 
these all stand on the ends of transverse ridges; under side, feet, and pro-le^s 
yellow-brown; head sub-globose, narrowing towards top, bilobed; color glossy 
brown; a few scattered hairs over the surface. (Fig. b, 6 2 , magnified). Dura¬ 
tion of this stage 3 and 4 days. 
After first moult: length .2 inch; similar in shape and armature to Arthemis • 
cylindrical, thickest at 3 to 5; the dorsum red-brown, the sides and under parts 
