116 NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Spots, not much enlarged, and there are none on hind wings. Expands 

 1.80 to 2.00. Habitat, Colorado, Montana and Nevada. 



282. HIPPARCHIA DIONYSIUS Scud. 

 Scudder's Wood Butterfly. 

 Differs from S. ridingsii in being larger and paler, with the brown 

 markings below fainter and fewer. Expands 2.00. Habitat, Utah. 



GENUS XLHI. SATYRUS. WOOD BUTTERFLIES. 

 Size, medium to large. Colors dark with prominent eye 

 spots on fore wings and sometimes with reddish patches. 

 Veins, swollen at base. Type S. alope. (Plate, IX, 1.) 



283. SATYRUS PEGALA Fab. 



Southern Wood Butterfly. 

 Size, large. Differs from the type in the larger size and usual ab- 

 sence of the second lower eyespot on the fore wing and the one present 

 is proportionately small. Fig. 38, a. Beneath, rather grayer than alope, 

 and there are six prominent eye spots on hind wing. Occasional speci- 

 mens have the two eye spots on fore wmg. Expands 2.40 to 3.00. Hab- 

 itat, Gulf States, rare on Coast of New Jersey, and at Mount Holley, 

 New Jersey. 



284. SATYRUS ALOPE Fab. 

 Yellow-spotted Butterfly. 



Size, medium. Dark brown above, with patch of reddish orange on 

 outer portion of fore wing, in which are two white-pupiled black spots, 

 the white frequently encircled with bluish. On hind wings is frequent- 

 ly a white-pupiled black dat. Beneath paler, much lined with blackish, 

 markings of fore wing similar, and there are from four to six eye spots 

 on hind wings. Expands l.GO to 2.25. Habitat, New England, except- 

 ing northern portion, and New York south to North Carolina. Occurs 

 in July, August, and September. 



284a. Satyrus alope texana, Edw. Similar to type, but mcuh 

 paler, more like pegala but with two eye spots on fore wings. 



284b. Satyrus alope maritima Edw. Smaller than the type, 

 darker, with the patch on fore wing restricted and much brighter in 

 color. Habitat, Martha's Vineyard, Eastern New Jersey, and Grand 

 Menan, New Brunswick. 



