AI'ATURA II. 



This (k'scription o( Iler.-ie is also supposed to have Ijeeu drawn from Jones' 

 fiy'ures, though, as is the case o£ Lycaon, the insect is referred to as in Drury's 

 collection, and undoubtedly was known to Fabricius, the chief lepidopterist 

 of his day. I do not know on what authority such supposition is based, and 

 there are certain discrepancies, to be hereafter spoken of !)etween Jones" figures 

 and the description, which would seem to preclude the idea of the latter having 

 been drawn up from the figures. By the kindness of Prof J. 0. Westwood, 

 I have in my possession a colored copy made by him of both Jones' figures 

 of Herse, representing the two sides of the female. Also a pencil tracing of 

 the upper side, and this I reproduce in order to show more clearly the differ- 

 ences between the two species. But if it were practic;able to give the colored 

 figures, there would be no doubt in the minds of my readers that they relate to 

 quite anotlicr insect from Chiton, in the figure of tlie upper side, the color of 

 the l);isa] half of primaries and of the whole of secondaries is of an uniform 

 shade of ferruginous, and the hind margin of primaries is also broadly bordered 

 by ferruginous, a shade darker. Between thes(> two areas, on primaries is a 

 nebulous, extra-di.scal fuscous band extending (juite across the wing ; in Chiton 

 vars. Ocellata and Proserpina, while thi' base of primaries is ferruginous, the 

 hind margin and disk, as well as the whole of secondaries, is blackish-brown or 

 fuscous. In the figure is u nwdian hand of six lon(/, oc(d, equal sjjois, there beiny 

 but one in the sid)-median interspace, arranged in a simple ciirre, concx out- 

 wardly ; and five of these spots only are fulvous, the sixth on the costal margin, 

 being pure white. Beyond are four ivhite sjjots. two of them sub-apical, and two 

 are in the median inlersj>aces, these last eery close to the band and parallel with 

 it. In the discoidcd interspace is no spot. In the insect this is totally difterent. 

 The hand is composed of seven spots, cdl of them rounded, arranr/ed in. a double 

 curve like the letter S, and these spots are (dl yellow, or ijellow with, a tint of red. 

 as are the outer .'ij^ots (vars. Ocellata and Proserpina), or all are ferruf/inons 

 (var. Flora.) Of the outer spots there are five, two beimj suh-apical, the other 

 t/iree, occupying the discoidal and two median, interspaces, plcieed at som.e distance 

 from the hand and nearly parallel with the hind margin. That is, their (jeneral 

 course is exactly opp)Osite that of tlie l>and in Herse. In the cell on the drawing- 

 is a concolored spot with a black outline, and this is s/uiped like a figure 8, made 

 of two op)posite double curves. In the insect, instead of this spot are two nearly 

 2)arallel sinuous ha7's. On the hind wings in the drawing are six spots, five of 

 which are distinctly ocellated, having both p)upils and irides, the spot next inner 

 angle onlv being without pupil. I/t Clgton all the sjwts are without pupils. On 

 the under side, the base of the hind wing, and all that part of primaries which 

 lies back of the cell and the second median nervule, is pale ferruginous ; the cell 



