APATURA. 6T 



prominent. Labial palpi thickly squamose, broad in front. An- 

 tennae short, slender ; club slender, obliquely rounded off at tip. 

 Primaries large, fore margin strongly arched, somewhat elbowed 

 near the base, apical angle more or less acute ; apical margin 

 sometimes deeply emargiuate near the tip. Secondaries subovate, 

 costal margin rounded, outer margin sometimes scolloped ; the 

 extremity of the third branch of the median vein being extended 

 into a tail. Abdomen rather small and subovate. 



1. P. glycerium Douhledaij. Figured in Doubleday and Hewitson's 

 Genera, pi. 50. 



Upper side copper red ; margin of all the wings brownish inte- 

 riorly, powdered with the same color ; primaries with two short 

 brownish bands commencing on the costal, the one nearest the apex 

 undulate ; the brownish margin extends about one-third on the 

 anterior edge, with a deep emargination near the summit. 



Under side paler, of the color of dead leaves ; the bands on the 

 primaries longer than above, and a transverse band on the secon- 

 daries separating the deeper shade of the base from the other part ; 

 an indistinct white spot near the upper edge. 



Female larger, paler, markings in the primaries more distinct 

 and wide ; similar below. 



Texas — Illinois. 



APATURA Fab. 



Eyes large, prominent ; antennce rather Iong,Herminated by an 

 elongated cylindrical club, the end of which is yellow ; palpi con- 

 tiguous ; thorax long and robust ; abdomen proportionately small ; 

 wings slightly dentate, often with a bluish reflection, the seconda- 

 ries with the cellule open and having at least one ocellus on the 

 under side; the primaries always have the outer edge more or less 

 concave, and in the discoidal cellule on the under side two or three 

 black transverse streaks. The secondaries are also somewhat con- 

 cave above the anal angle. 



The Apaturce resemble Satyri in the form of the larva and in 



