APATURA I. 



APATURA LEILIA, 7, 8. 



Apatiirn Lei/in, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vul. V., p. 103, 1874. 



Male. — Expands 1.8 inch. 



Upper side of primaries next base and partly in the median interspaces, 

 and of secondaries thronghout, ferruginous ; the remainder of primaries, which 

 comprises the apical area to median nervure and to cell, and the discal portion 

 of the median interspaces, fuscous ; liind margins bordered narrowly by fus- 

 cous ; both wings have a sub-marginal black stripe, and a little anterior to this, 

 a second, which, on secondaries, is either very slightly crenated, or is crenated 

 next outer angle and serrated posteriorly ; primaries have a transverse row of 

 seven spots, either all white, or the upper three or four white and remainder 

 yellow, arranged in a double curve, the first two and fifth nearly equal, the 

 third and fourth minute, the sixth and seventh, near inner mai-gin, ec[ual, rather 

 smaller tJian the fifth and sometimes conHuent ; midway l)etween this row and 

 the margin is a second row of white spots and ocelli ; the spots, two in number, 

 being placed on the upper sub-costal and the discoidal interspaces ; the three 

 ocelli, on the lower sub-costal and the median interspaces, are black, rounded, 

 the upper one small, with an indistinct pale iris, the others large, nearly equal, 

 each with a few blue scales forming a minute eccentric spot and each sur- 

 rounded by a pale brown nimbus ; in the cell two transverse bars, the one at 

 the outer extremity sub-reniform. the other near the middle straight, both ob- 

 scure brown centrally, black at the edges, and separated by a space that is white 

 irrorated with lirown. 



Secondaries have the costal margin fuscous ; upon the extra-discal area a 

 series of six Ijlack ocelli, arranged as in Celtis and Clyton, the second from costa 

 largest and back of the line, the sixth minute, the others nearly equal and rather 

 more than half the size of the second ; each surrounded by a shade slightly 

 paler than the ground color of the wing, and several containing small eccentric 

 clusters of blue scales ; on the middle of costal margin a white patch, in 

 line with which five small white spots pass round the extremity of the eel! ; 



