NYMPHALIS (LIMENITIS) ARTHEMIS.
Plate [X]. fig. 3, 4.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Nymphalidæ, Sw.
Genus. Nymphalis, Latr. Papilio (Nymphal. Phal.), Linn. Drury, &c. Subgenus: Limenitis, Fabr. Steph.
Nymphalis (Limenitis) Arthemis. Alis dentatis fuscis; utrinque fasciâ communi albâ strigisque duabus lunularum cœrulescentium, subtus rufo-maculatis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.—3 unc.)
Syn. Papilio (Nymphal. Phal.) Arthemis, Drury, Append. vol.. 2 Say. Amer. Entomol. 2. pl. 23.
Papilio Lamina, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 118. 361. Enc. Méth. ix. p. 380. (Nymphalis L.)
Habitat: New York.
Upper Side. Antennæ, head, thorax, and abdomen black. Wings black, at the base surrounded by a white band, separating it from the external part, which is black likewise. On the anterior wings, near the tips, are four small white spots, the two uppermost being largest; along the external edges is a narrow marginal row of small blue crescents, continued along the posterior wings, where it is double, having above it a row of brown orange spots, verged at top with blue. A white bar begins on the middle of the anterior edges of the anterior wings, which, crossing them and the posterior, ends at the extremity of the body.
Under Side. Palpi, head, breast, and legs brown. The parts that on the upper side are black, are of a fine red brown. The basal parts having some brown orange spots on both wings, verged with black. Margins blue; scollopings edged with white. Margins of the wings dentated; the inferior ones most.