78 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Upper side of the secondaries obscure brown, with a black eye, 

 white pupil and yellow iris. 



Under side of various colors, with six eyes, of which three are 

 united, the fifth very large. These eyes, which vary in number 

 and form, are black, pupil whitish, and iris ferruginous. 



North America. 



GODT. 



DEBIS BOISD. 



Body rather small, wings large; secondaries generally augulated 

 in the middle with a row of large ocelli ; eyes prominent, hairy ; 

 labial palpi rather elongated, clothed in front with moderately 

 short fine hair. Antennae slender, club slender, with short joints. 

 Thorax short, thick, hairy. Primaries triangular, ovate; fore 

 margin strongly curved, apical angle rounded, apical margin but 

 little if at all emarginate, costal vein dilated at the base. Secon- 

 daries subovate, more or less scolloped along the outer margin, 

 which is generally deeply angulated or rather shortly tailed at the 

 extremity. Fore legs very minute and thickly clothed with long 

 silky hairs ; tarsus slender, as long as the tibia, and destitute of 

 joints or claws. Fore legs of the females rather larger than those 

 of the males, slender, scaly, destitute of hairs ; tarsal articulations 

 concealed by scales, obliquely truncate at tip, where there are a 

 few short spines. Tibial spurs of the hind legs rather long. 



1. D. andromacha Hiibn. Figured in Say, Amer. Ent. II, pi. 36. 



Body above and the superior surface of the wings brown ; pri- 

 maries beyond the middle, with a broad paler band, bifid before, 

 and including a series of four fuscous oval spots or epupillate 

 ocelli, of which the second and sometimes the third are small and 

 the posterior one largest ; between the band and the exterior edge 

 is a single narrow pale line, sometimes obsolete ; exterior edge 

 alternately white and black ; secondaries with a narrow fuscous, 

 angulated line across the middle, and a broad pale band beyond 

 the middle, in which is a series of five fuscous epupillate ocelli with 

 a yellow iris, the third smallest, then the fifth, the first being largest, 



