SATYEUS IL,II1. 



SATYRUS ALOPE. 



Sdli/nis Alo/te (Al'o-pc), F:iliricius. 



ALOPE, Fab.. Ellt. Syst.. III., y. -Jl'!), 179:1. Harris, Ins. Mass., .'id ed., p. :Wr,, 1862. 



Var. Tkxa.na, Kdw., Can. Kiit., XII., j). 21, ISSO. 



Viir. Mauitim.^, EiIw., 1. c, ]). 23, isso. 

 NEl'HEr.E (Xeph'e-le), Kirby, Fauna lior. Aiiier., p. 2ii;i, 1.S37. Harris, 1. c, p. .'iO, IS«2. 



Var. Ol.YMi'US, Edw., 1. c, p. 31, ISSO. 



Var. Boons, litdir, Proc. C'al. Auad. X. S,-\., IH., p. 1G4, 1804. 



Form ALOPE. 



Male. — Expands 2.25 inches. 



Upper .side l)lackisli-brown, darkest over basal areas ; hind margins bordered 

 by two fine parallel lines, a little within which is a black stripe ; primaries have 

 a transverse yellow band beyond the disk, sometimes a little ochraceous, and 

 often more or less encroached on by the brown ground ; on this are two ocelli, 

 round, black, of variable size, ami with or without central point, which is white 

 with blue scales ; behind cell a blackish indistinct sexual dash. 



Secondaries have a small ocellus on second median interspace, in yellow ring 

 (often wanting), and with or without white points ; fringes coneolored. 



Under side yellow-brown; the band enlarged and of paler color; the ocelli 

 repeated, enlarged ; the marginal lines distinct ; the brown area covered with 

 abbreviated darker streaks, which over base and disks form somewhat concentric 

 broken rings, limited without by a common dark stripe ; on primaries this 

 stripe borders on the yellow band ; on secondaries it is irregularly sinuous from 

 margin to margin, throwing out a rounded prominence against cell, followed by 

 a I'ounded sinus on median interspace ; across middle of cell and Ijelow it a 

 dark stripe ; the extra-discal area less streaked ; the ocelli vary from nil to six, 

 the fvdl number being most often present, disposed in two groups of three, the 

 middle one of each group largest ; all black, rounded, in narrow yellow rings, 

 and with white dots edged by blue scales. 



