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 coerulescentium, 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.
Mr. Say observes of this beautiful species that it occurred sparingly in
the Northwestern territory, during the advance of Major Long's expedition
toward Lake Winnepec. He also found it at that lake as well as at the Lake
of the Woods, and in other parts of Upper Canada. He procured specimens
likewise from Arkansaw, in the expedition to the Rocky Mountains, and
received it from Cambridge (Massachusetts).