Limenitis Eros.

Allied to Disippus, wings less produced, and in female very broad.

Male—Expands about 2.6 inch.

Upper side very dark red-brown; hind margins bordered broadly with black, costal margins narrowly; inner margin of primaries black to the submedian 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 first 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.