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guished from any other North American Safi/rus yet known by its 

 pale color and clouded surface, and by the whitish color of under sur- 

 face, and conspicuous brown transverse stripes. The ocelli also are 

 different from those of our other large species, having small white 

 pupils, and the upper one on primaries being peculiar in shape and 

 doubly pupillated. 

 Tlieela Crysalus, n. sp. 



Male. — Expands 1.5 inch. Upper side purple, the hind margins 

 of both wings and costal of secondaries broadly edged with black ; the 

 costal margin of primaries narrowly, and depending from this, on the 

 disk, is a large sub-rectangular black spot; within the marginal 

 border of primaries, next inner angle, a fulvous maculate band termi- 

 nating above on the lower median interspace, broken into four spots, 

 the upper one round and separated by a little space from the next; 

 this last is duplex and one or both parts shows a black central spot; 

 at the angle a triangular spot; at anal angle of secondaries are two 

 oval fulvous spots with black pupils; tail long, black, tipped with 

 white; fringes grey, becoming whitish at anal angle. 



Under side brown with a faint tint of purple; both wings edged by 

 a pale line that becomes distinct and white on posterior half of sec- 

 ondaries; primaries have a sub-marginal macular black band preceded 

 by a white line and corresponding in position to the anterior edge of 

 the black border of upper side ; the fulvous spots repeated ; a second 

 band of dark brown, extra-discal and continuous, extends from costa to 

 lower median and if protracted would strike the inner angle; this 

 band is edged posteriorly by white; on the arc a brown bar, edged on 

 either side by white ; secondaries have a marginal series of spots, the 

 one on lower median interspace fulvous anteriorly, replaced next mar- 

 gin by brown on which are thickly sprinkled metallic blue scales, and 

 sending a fulvous spur up the abdominal margin, the spot in second 

 median interspace large, fulvous, with black pupil, separated from the 

 margin as on the spot before described ; sometimes on the upper 

 median interspace are a few fulvous scales, but often not, and the 

 whole space is irrorated with the blue and white scales; beyond to outer 

 angle the spots are obsolete, a few scattered blue scales only appear- 

 ing ; at anal angle a round black spot ; auterior to the marginal 

 spots is a black crenated line, only distinct over the fulvous spots, pre- 

 ceded by a line of metallic blue which is replaced by white towards 

 outer angle; on the disk a blackish-brown line, bordered posteriorly by 



