APATURA I. 



flavo alboque maculatce ocelloque coeco, atro iride rufa, subtus basi flav«>, fusco 

 maculata^, apice fusca? maculis tribus albis ocellisqiie duobus atris iride flava, 

 anteriori papilla alba, posteriori ca'co. Striga marginalis flava. Postic* basi 

 obscura^ striga e maculis quinque flavis, apice rufis, maculis sex ocellaribus, atris. 

 Subtus tlavo fuscoque variegatfe ocellis octo atris iride flava pupillaque coerulea." 



"Fore lo'oKjs fuacous, spotted with yellow and white ; Mnd tvimjs ferrvginous 

 with six blind ocelli ; under side variegated, with eight ocelli. PapUlo Lycaon, 

 of Jones's drawings, plate 17, fig. 1. Ilahifdt tmknoion. Collection of Mr. 

 Drury. Body of medium length, fuscous, the sides of the abdomen fuIvor(s. 

 Fore loings above fuscous, spotted with yellow and white, and with a blind 

 ocellus, which is black with a reddish iris ; loider side yeJloio at base, spotted 

 with fuscous, the apex fuscous, with three white spots and two black ocelli with 

 yellow irides, the anterior one pupilled with white, tlie other blind ; the mar- 

 ginal sfrij}e yellow. Hind wings obscure at base, with a stripe and five yel- 

 low spots, rufous at aper, with six black ocelli. Under side variegated uritli 

 yellow and fuscous, with eight black ocelli which have yellow irides and blue 

 pupils." 



This description cannot apj^ly to Celtis, for in that species the vjjj^er side of 

 the hind wing is not ferruginous, nor is the ajjex rufous, and there is no yellow 

 marginal strijje on either wing ; the fore icing is also described as fuscoiis, 

 which implies that it is wholly fuscous, whereas in Celtis the basal third is of 

 quite another color. On the under side there is no yellow marginal stripe on 

 the fore wing, nor is the base yellow, and the hind wing is not variegated with 

 yellow and fuscous ; nor are the sides of the cdjdomcn fulvous. All the spots 

 spoken of are characteristic of the entire group, and, color excepted, which is 

 in every particular inapplicable to Celtis, there is not one specific character 

 given. For the extra-discal rows of spots and the ocelli on the fore wings, and 

 the discal spots and ocelli of the hind wings, are found in Celtis, Alicia, and 

 Leilia, and with the single exception of the ocellus on the fore wings, are found 

 in Clyton also, a species belonging to another group ; and most of these mark- 

 ings, especially the ocelli of the hind wings and the apical spots of primaries 

 are found in Idyja, Hiib., and its allies, which form still another grouji. 



Fabricius is supposed to have made up his descriptions from the colored 

 figures by Jones, but he refers to the insect as being in Drury's collection, and 

 he must have seen it there, for that collection was one of the best known in 

 Europe. These figures are still preserved at Oxford, and have been inspected 

 by Mr. A. G. Butler. He is of the opinion that they were meant to represent 

 Alicia, and sa3^s, in a letter to me, " It is certainly not Celtis, which I know 

 well." Mr. Riley has received fi'om Professor Westwood uncolored tracings. 



