APATURA II. 



and reinainder of primaries and the outer liinl) of secondaries, except a broad 

 space along the hind margin, is pale fuscous, and between this fuscous area and 

 the ferruginous of the base, on secondaries, is a whity-brown discal zone. All 

 this is quite unlike the insect, as a glance at our Plate ■will show. 



If Fabricius' description was taken from Jones' figures, why should all the 

 .spots on the forewings be called white, or why should the ocelli be described as 

 blind, with the exception of tlie second and third ! Or why should the descrip- 

 tion call for seven ocelli when the fio'ure shows but six ! 



Now it happens that one of the groups into which the American species of this 

 genus divide themselves is charactei'ized by just such a simple curved discal 

 baud on primaries as appears in Jones' figures, made up of six oval spots, and 

 outside these are four white sj^ots, two of which are sub-apical, and two placed 

 parallel to the band, just as in these figures also. Of this style of ornamentation 

 are certain Central American species, and also the one called Ich/ja, Hubner, fig- 

 ured in the Samml. Exot. Schmett., a West Indian species ; and that the resem- 

 blance to Herse may appear, I subjoin a cut of it also, copied for me by Mr. 

 Scudder from Hiibner's figui-e. It must be allowed to apju'oach Herse remark- 

 ably- 



Horse 9. 



Idyja 9. 



With the figures of Herse, Professor Westwood also sent me colored figures 

 of Lycaon, and they represent quite another insect than Celtis. On the upper 

 side, priniaries are fuscous exce^it the cell, and the larger part of this from the 

 base outward is yellow. There is a yelloio suljmarglnal str'q)e, and the discal 

 hand is composed of fidvous spots The secondaries are fuscous over the basal 

 area, and beyond to the hind margin the color is fidvous, as decided as in 

 Argynnis Cybele. Upon the disk are fve elongated, equal, white sjmts, arranged 

 in a regtdar curve, and on the basal side of these is a coiispicuous yelloio strip)e 

 which reaches half aci'oss the wing. On the under side, tJie basal third ofjirima- 

 ries and the v)hole of the hind wing is yellow, the rest of primaries being fuscous, 



