NORTU AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



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203. SATYRUS OETUS Bd. 



Californiax "Wood Butterfly. 

 Dark brown above, with two small pupilless eye spots on fore wings. 

 Yellowish below, and the two eye spots are larger, white-pupiled and 

 3^ellow- ringed. There are one or two white spots on hind wings and a 

 band of reddish across middle of wing. Expands 1.50 to 1. GO. Habi- 

 tat, i^orthern California. 



2.94. SATYRUS CHARON Edw. 

 Charon Butterfly. 

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

 female with two, yellow tinted beneath, with a grayish washing. There 

 are two yellows-ringed eye spots on fore wings and from one to six on 

 hind pair. Expands 1.40 to 1.50, Habitat, New Mexico to Montana 

 and British America. 



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a, lower Bide, hind wing, Neonymplia sosyhius: b, upper side, fure wing Coenonympha Califor- 

 nia; c, lower side, liind wing, Erebia fasciata ; d, same, E. discsidalis; e, same, E. haydeui. 



295. SATYRUS STHENELE Bd. 



San Francisco Butterfly. 

 Size, small. Fore wings not as much rounded at apex as in other 

 members of the genus already described. Dark brown above, with two 

 black, white-pupiled eye spots on fore wing, and a sub-marginal dark 

 band on hind pair. Beneath, paler, lined with darker, there is a broad 

 irregular band on middle of hind wing, on either side of which is a whit- 

 ish band. The eye-spots on fore wing are much enlarged and are yel- 

 low-ringed. Expands 1.. 50. Habitat, San Francisco, California. Said 

 to be extinct. 



