SATYRUS I. 



SATYRUS WHEELERI, 1—4. 



Satyrus IVhederi, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, IV., p. 343. Mead, Zool. Report Wheeler E.xpedition, 

 v., p. 773, pi. 39. 



Male. — Expands 2.1 to 2.3 inches. 



Upper side light brown, clouded with dark brown, especially on the disks of 

 each wing ; the hind margins edged by two parallel lines, preceded by a com- 

 mon dark stripe, which on secondaries is somewhat macular ; primaries have a 

 light colored extra-discal area, on which are two large black ocelli, the upper one 

 sub-pyriform, and as if two spots of unequal size had been compressed into one, 

 and incloses two white pupils ; the lower ocellus is larger, i-ounded, with white 

 pupils ; both ocelli inclosed in narrow yellow rings. Secondaries have one 

 ocellus, of medium size, in the lower median interspace. 



Under side light yellow-brown, covered with rather coarse, abbreviated, brown 

 streaks, which are most dense from base to middle of disk on primaries, but 

 pretty equally distributed over the whole of secondaries; both wings cro.ssed by 

 an irregular brown stj-ipe, which stops at the sub-median nervure of secondaries 

 and connects on that nervure with a similar stripe, nearly straight, which crosses 

 the wing about half way between the first stripe and base ; in some examples 

 this basal stripe is continued faintly across primaries ; the marginal lines and sub- 

 marginal stripe repeated ; the ocelli of primaries also repeated, Init with much 

 broader rings ; secondaries have six ocelli, each with white pupil and in yellow 

 ring ; three of these are in the sub-costal and discoidal interspaces, the two outer 

 ones small and rounded, the middle one long oval, or double-convex, and three 

 on the posterior interspaces, all of them rounded, and the middle one largest. 



Body yellow-brown ; legs same ; palpi darker brown ; antenna? brown with 

 fine whitish annulations; club ferruginous. 



Female. — Expands from 2.1 to 2.7 inches. 



Upper side sometimes similar in color to the male, often lighter ; the dark 

 basal area, in the light examples, more sharply defined on middle of the disk ; 



