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with a liiihtcr tint, usually dark gray brown, sonictinics dark olivaceo-luteous ; the 

 costal edge nearly to the tip clay brown; the base of the cell, sometimes tinged 

 slightly with fulvous, is crossed by two similar, irregular, transverse bars, twice 

 as broad as long, of orange fulvous, rather broadly edged on the interior and exte- 

 rior borders witii black; the inner is seated upon tlic median nervure at or a little 

 witliin its first, and tlie outer at its second divarication, enclosing the base of the 

 inferior subcostal nervulos ; between these two bars the cell has dark green reflec- 

 tions; in the outer portion of the wing are two unequal ocelli, the upper and smaller 

 sometimes nearly or (juite obsolete, situated in the lower sul)costal interspace shortly 

 before the middle of its outer half; when best developed, it is of the diameter of the 

 interspace and is black, with a rather pale blue pupil, and encircled indistinctly with 

 dull olivaceo-luteous ; the other ocellus is exceedingly large, its centre in the middle 

 of the outer two-thirds of the lower median interspace, and, when fullest developed, 

 consists of a nearly circular black spot, both above and below, overreaching the 

 limits of the interspace a little, Avith a pale blue pupil no larger than that of the upper 

 ocellus and a white centre; the spot is encircled narrowly with dull olivaceo-luteous, 

 sometimes with fulvous, and tliis with a similar circle of brownish black, generally 

 l)roadest on the interior side ; in specimens where tlie upper ocellus is best developed 

 there is usually in the succeeding two interspaces above, small, vaguely defined, whitish 

 lunules, which, with the ocellus, lie in a line parallel to the upper fourth of the outer 

 border; the wing is crossed beyond the middle by a broad, dull whitish belt, often 

 tinged with clayey brown, broken by the dusky nervules, its inner border very nearly 

 parallel to the limit of the paler basal half of the wing, and including and usually 

 embracing the large median ocellus ; its interior border is formed in general of two 

 irregular curves opening outwards, the upper passing from the middle of the costal 

 border to the subcosto-median interspace, midway between the centre of the upper 

 ocellus and the base of the middle median nervule, the other from there to the sub- 

 median nervure just before the middle of the outer two-thirds of the inner border, 

 sometimes striking the iris of the large ocellus at the middle median nervule ; the 

 breadth of the belt at its upper extremity is less than that of the cell, and the exterior 

 border runs in a nearly straight line toward the middle of the outer border, stopping 

 short of it by less than the width of an interspace, and continuing downAvard at the 

 same distance from the border to the submedian nervure ; beneath the large ocellus 

 the belt is broken, in whole or in part, Avith dark broAvn, and the portion in the medio- 

 submedian interspace toAvard the outer border is more or less tinged Avith deep orange 

 fulvous ; there is generally a tinge of fulvous also in the subcostal interspaces, at an 

 eciual distance from the outer border beyond the upper ocellus ; tAvo faint, parallel, sub- 

 marginal, dusky lines foUoAv the course of the outer border, one at less than an inter- 

 space's distance from it and the other half that distance, and betAveen the latter and 

 the margin the Aving is generally a very little paler; fringe dark brown, interrupted 

 very slightly with Avhite in the middle of the subcostal interspaces, more particularly 

 in the upper ones and to a greater degree in the median interspaces. Hind imngs of 

 the same general tint as the basal half of the fore Avings, but uniform in texture, 

 being of a dark, slightly chocolate broAvn ; at the distance of about an interspace from 

 the outer border there is a slender, crenulate, dusky stripe, parallel to the outer 

 border, folloAved interiorly by an orange fulvous band, broadest, and of about the 

 Avidth of an interspace, in the middle of the Avings, attenuated at either extremity, 

 and not separated from the broAvn base by a distinct outline ; encroaching to a greater 

 or less degree on this colored band, but almost entirely situated in the broAvu base, 

 are tAvo unequal ocelli, the upper immense, with its centre a little above the middle, 

 and about at the centre of the loAver subcostal interspace, consisting, first, of a many- 

 colored, roundish, or generally a little ovate spot, its major axis subparallel to the 

 inner border of the Aving, the outer portion generally at least one-half black, the inner 

 orange fulvous, but the middle covered thickly with pale bluish scales (Avhich cover a 

 larger or smaller space, but never more than half the Avhole spot, and generally more 

 of the fulvous than the black) , Avhich appear bluish only over the black, but pearly 



