. The butterflies of the eastern United States; for the use of classes in zoology, and private students. f wing black. Hind wings withthe border the same as on the fore wings, the costal in-terrupted near the apex. Fringes black, white in theintervenular depressions. The food-plant is purslane. Indian River, Florida. 72. LiMENiTis Ursula, Fab. Expanse of wings 3 inches. Upper surface black tinged with bluish or greenish,and a little with fulvous at the apex of the fore the outer margin are two rows of blue or greenspots, the outer in the form of crescents, the innerlunules. Under s
. The butterflies of the eastern United States; for the use of classes in zoology, and private students. f wing black. Hind wings withthe border the same as on the fore wings, the costal in-terrupted near the apex. Fringes black, white in theintervenular depressions. The food-plant is purslane. Indian River, Florida. 72. LiMENiTis Ursula, Fab. Expanse of wings 3 inches. Upper surface black tinged with bluish or greenish,and a little with fulvous at the apex of the fore the outer margin are two rows of blue or greenspots, the outer in the form of crescents, the innerlunules. Under side brownish black, the outer border repeated,preceded by a row of black and a row of fulvous spots,some of the latter obsolete near the posterior angle. EASTERN UNITED STATES. 207 There are two fulvous spots in the cell of the fore wings,three near the base of the hind wings, and some on thecosta of both wings near the base. The larva, according to Harris, is like that of L. Di-sippus in form, of a brownish color, more or less varie-gated with white on the sides, and with green above, and, Fig. Limenitis Ursula (natural size). like that of Disippus, has two long barbed brown hornson the second (third ?) segment. The chrysalis is not to be distinguished from that ofDisippus in form and color, and the butterfly emergesfrom it in eleven days after the insect has entered thisstate. The food-plants are willow, wild gooseberry, wildcherry, apple, plum, hawthorn, oak, Vacdnium stami-neum, and Carpinus Americana. Atlantic States, Mississippi Valley, Kansas. 208 ^^^ BUTTERFLIES OF THE 73. LiMENiTis Arthemis, Drury. Expanse of wings from to 3 inches. Upper surface black, a white band crossing both wings,that on the fore wings curving from the middle of thecosta to near the posterior angle, from which place it iscontinued across the hind wings to above the anal fore wings have a white subapical spot and twomarginal rows of faint green lunules. The hind wingshave the lu
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