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ocelli nearly obsolete, the rings especially being absent, and the ])lue pupils in a 

 greater or less degree ; and these last are often changed to a didl whitish-green. 



Yak. flora. 



I am uncertain as to the position of this form, whether it is to be considered 

 as a variety of CJi/fon, or as a good species. After the Plate of C/yton was 

 drawn. I observed in the collection of Mr. William Stadlmair, of Brooklyn, 

 several males and a single female, lately (April, 1876) sent him by his son, who 

 had taken tliem at P;datka, Florida, all of which dift'ered from any variety of 

 Clyton hitherto seen by me, whether from Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, or West 

 Virginia. These males were, moreover, alike in shape, color, and peculiarities of 

 marking, except that on the under side there was a difterence in the lightness or 

 darkness of the colors, but just as I have seen in the same brood of Chjton'm 

 West ^'iririnia. In these males both wino-s are more excised than is usual in 

 Clt/loii, and secondaries are more prolonged and more pointed at the anal angle. 

 The upper surface of Ijoth wings is of an uniform bright orange-ferruginous, 

 except the extra-discal area of primaries, which is of a deep shade of ferruginous, 

 blackened in tlie middle of the several interspaces ; primaries are scarcely at all 

 obscured at base, and the two rows of spots are bright orange-ferruginous, of 

 same shade as the general surface, instead of being lighter, or yellowish, as in the 

 usual Cli/fon. Secondaries have the l)ase and inner margin but slightly obscured, 

 and a broad bright field extends from the middle of the wing to the marginal 

 hand. The ocelli lie on this field, and are large. The marginal band of each 

 wing is remarkably jjroad, so that on secondaries it nearly reaches the ocelli ; 

 and except in the two interspaces next outer angle there is a total absence of 

 the sub-marginal crenated line always seen in var. Ocelluta. Furthermore there 

 is an absence of the light patch on costal margin. The peculiar shape of the 

 winti's, the uniform brio-ht shade of ferrutj-inous, extendinu- even to the rows of 

 extra-discal spots, the large ocelli, the In-oad marginal band, and the absence of 

 the crenated line, and of the costal patch, strike the eye at once- On the under 

 side the pattern is as in var. OceUata, but the colors are all intense ; the cell 

 and nearW all the spots of primaries buff", the extra-discal area deep ferruginous ; 

 the basal area of secondaries deep gray-brown, tinted with ferruginous next costa 

 and towards anal angle ; the sinuous discal stripe deep ferruginous, as is ;dso 

 the field on which are the ocelli, and between this stripe and field the space is 

 lilaceous ; the ocelli intense ferruginous, with obsolete rings, and lilaceous pupils. 

 And on both wings the broad marginal band is cut by a conspicuous blue-black 

 stripe from anal angle to the second sub-costal nervule on primaries ; this stripe 



