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The secondaries have six ocelli ; the anal one is of the ground 

 color, with a black pupil, indistinct. 



Under side paler, crossed with irregular wavy lines. The pri- 

 maries have four ocelli, with the pupil white. The secondaries 

 have six ocelli, five of which are contiguous. 



United States. Expands nearly two inches. 



BOISD. 



[Fabricius has united the following with the preceding, but 

 Godart maintains that it is a distinct species. J. G. M.] 



6. N. cantheus Fab. Ent. Syst. 48C. 



Nearly the same size as N. canthus. Upper side blackish-brown, 

 without spots. Under side lighter, with two ferruginous, oblique, 

 common lines. The primaries have three small indistinct eyes. 

 The secondaries have six, of which the fifth is large ; the sixth, 

 which is at the anal angle, small. 



North America. 



GODART. 



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EREBIA DALMAN. 



Club of the antennae gradual. Eyes naked. Tibia shorter than 

 the tarsus. Only the costal of the primaries inflated. Species 

 rather small in size ; color dark brown ; usually a ferruginous 

 band or spots with small black eyes, pupils white. Sometimes 

 the eyes are obsolete and in their stead only black spots. Under 

 side paler ; a dark band marbled. Outer edge rounded. Palpi 

 with long hairs at the last joint ; antennae not annulated. 



1. E. discoidalis Kirbij. Faun. Bor. Ain. IV, 298, pi. 3. 



Body brown ; antennae aunulated with white ; wings entire, 

 brown ; costa spotted with gray ; a triangular obscure reddish 

 tawny discoidal stripe extends from the base to the posterior mar- 

 gin of the primaries, and is discoverable also on the under side, 

 where the wing is faintly clouded with gray at the tip ; the secon- 

 daries underneath are indistinctly marbled and clouded with gray 

 or whitish ; fringe whitish and brown alternately. 



Canada. Expands an inch. 



KIRBY. 



