APATURA II. 



interspaces ; and clear brown with a faint purple tint along the hind margin ; 

 the discal spots repeated, luteous ; the cellular bars repeated ; next bej-ond the 

 cell, a transverse, sinuous black stripe ; the sub-marginal line distinct and pre- 

 ceded b}^ a complete series of l)lackish spots, which are lanceolate towards aj^ex, 

 elsewhere lunular. 



Secondaries either light or dark In-own next base, this area limited on the disk 

 by a dark wavy line which begins on the middle of the costa and ends on the 

 inner margin, at one-third the distance from base, after curving far down towards 

 the angle, on the sub-median nervure ; beyond this line there is a narrow space 

 across the entire wing of gray-white with a pink tint, followed by a brown cloud 

 on which are the ocelli ; the margin as on primaries, purplish-brown ; besides 

 the sub-marginal line is a second composed of nearly confluent narrow lunules ; 

 in the cell a transverse fuscous spot, and another at the extremity ; the ocelli 

 seven in number, and the one next inner angle duplex; each ocellus black, 

 pupilled with an abbreviated stripe of bright blue, and surrounded by a fine 

 ferruginous ring. Individuals vary much in the shades of under side, and when 

 these are light the purple tint is less perceptible. 



Body above greenish-brown, beneath pale vinous-brown; legs ochraceous, the 

 front (or aborted) pair, yellow-white ; palpi yellow-white, fuscous above and at 

 tip ; antennae fuscous above, light brown beneath, imperfectly annulated with 

 gray; clulj black, the tip greenish-yellow. 



Female. — Expands from 2.5 to 3 inches. 



Upper side bright ferruginous nearly to the hind margin ; in some cases the 

 fuscous portion is confined to the middle of the interspaces hear the apex, in 

 others the interspaces on the disk are also fuscous ; the spots more diftused and 

 more yellowish than in the male ; secondaries essentially as in the male. On 

 the luider side the colors are lighter than in the male, and often the markings 

 on outer half of the wing are much obscured. 



Var. PROSERPINA, 



Soiulder, Trans. Acad. Nat. Sei. Chicago, I., p. 3.32, 1869. 



This form differs from OceUata in that secondaries are black throughout, the 

 ocellar spots either wanting or scarcely perceptible ; in some cases the sub-mar- 

 ginal ferruginous spots are faintly indicated ; on the under side the difference is 

 less marked, the ocelli reappearing. The female differs from OceUata in same 

 way, but on the under side there is a greater ol:)scurity of color, the whole of sec- 

 ondaries and tlie apical area of primaries being of an uniform shade of brown, 

 or fuscous, or fuscous with a purple tint; none of the markings distinct, and the 



