DEBIS. T9 



exterior margin slightly tinged with rufous and with one or two 

 fuscous lines. 



Under side perlaceous, with a brown narrow baud before the 

 middle ; beyond which is abroad lighter perlaceous band, in which 

 on the primaries are four epupillate ocelli, two or three anterior 

 ones small, and on the secondaries are six ocellate spots, consisting 

 of a fuscous spot surrounded by a yellow line and having a white 

 pupil ; first spot distant, third small, fifth double ; exterior margin 

 with a yellow line. 



Larva long, subcylindric, striate ; head with two erect horns ; 

 body terminating in two porrected points. 



Chrysalis short, thick, constricted across the abdomen. 



North and West. 



Say. 



2. D. portlandia Fah. Ent. Syst. Ill, 103. Figured in Boisd. et Lee. 

 pi. 58. 



Upper side pale livid brown, inclining to russety, with three 

 large black eyes on the primaries and five on the secondaries. 

 These eyes have no pupils and are surrounded with a yellow iris. 

 Sometimes the primaries have a small intermediate eye between 

 the first and second, and the secondaries have a sixth small anal 

 eye. 



The under side is paler than the upper, with a violet reflection, 

 traversed by two brown sinuous rays, between which there is a 

 discoidal arc of the same color. The eyes are neater and blacker 

 than above, with the iris yellow ; those of the primaries are in- 

 closed in an oblong white ring, and the first is often pupilled with 

 white ; those of the secondaries are nearly all pupilled with white, 

 the anal is double and the pupils oblong. Besides this, the eyes 

 are preceded on all the wings by a white sinuous band, and fol- 

 lowed by a line of the same color, which is double in the secon- 

 daries. The marginal edge is fulvous yellow. Autenuaj yellowish ; 

 body of the color of the wings. 



Larva feeds on grasses ; green, with two white dorsal lines and 

 a lateral band of the same color. The anal points are prominent, 

 rosy white ; head surmounted by two points of the same color, 

 which are elevated in the form of ears ; the under side of the abdo- 

 men and the feet are whitish-green. 



Georgia. 



Boisd. 



