118 NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



289. SATYRUS GABBII Edw. 

 Gabb's Butterfly, 

 Light j'ellowish brown above with clouded yellowish red on fore 

 wings, and an obscure yellow shade over outer half of hind wings. On 

 these wings are four eye spots, lowest largest pupiled, and all are yel- 

 low-ringed. Beneath paler, uniformly streaked with brown. Six eye 

 spots on hind wings beneath. Expands 1.80. Habitat, Oregon and 

 Weber Mountains, Utah. 



290. SATYRUS WHEELERII Edw. 

 Wheeler's Butterfly. 

 Light brown above, clouded with darker, with the sub-marginal 

 bands on both wings showing. There are two eye spots on fore wmgs, 

 the upper inclined to be double and has two pupils, there is an eye spot 

 on hind wing. All the spots are white-pupiled and yellow-ringed. Be- 

 neath, very pale with spots on fore wings enlarged, and there are six on 

 hind wings, the second from upper side oval, all are white-pupiled and 

 pale yellow-ringed. There is a central band of brown and the remain- 

 ing surface is much lined with brown. The female is larger and paler. 

 Expands 2.00 to 2.30. Habitat, Apache, Arizona ; Owen's Lake, South 

 em California; and Southern Utah. 



291. SATYRUS MEADII Edw. 



Mead's Butterfly. 

 Pale brown on fore wings above, rusty in the central cell and in the 

 field which includes the eye spots, of which there are two, pupiled, and 

 one on inner angle of hind wing. Brown beneath but more rusty, this 

 tinting extendmg over the entire surface of fore wings. Eye spots large 

 and yellow-ringed. Expands 1.50. Habitat, Montana to Arizona. 



292. SATYRUS SILVESTRIS Edw. 

 Sylvan Butterfly. 



Dark brown above, with a single pupilless eye spot on fore wings, 

 the female however has two, yellow tinted beneath, the eye spots on fore 

 wings are yellow-ringed, and on the hind wings are from one to six 

 black dots. Expands 1.60 to 1.80. Habitat, California and British 

 Columbia. 



