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over the fulvous, giving to tlie whole middle a powder.y bloom; second of an 

 encircling, rather broad ring of yellowish clay brown, sometimes broader on the inner 

 than on the outer side; and third of a similar, equal, and very distinct ring of black; 

 the whole ocellus usually readies from the upper median to the upper subcostal nervule, 

 but sometimes extends f ux'ther above ; the lower ocellus is situated in the middle of 

 that poi'tion of the' lower median interspace which lies beyond the second divarication 

 of the median nervure ; it Alls it and is similarly formed to the larger one, its longer 

 diameter at right angles to the costal margin ; it usually laclis the fulvous interior 

 and is much smaller than the upper, surpassing only, and scarcely, the middle median 

 ncrvule; the edge of the outer border of the wing is dusky, and the wing between 

 this and the submarginal streak already described is olivaceous clay brown, more and 

 more inf uscated in tlie upper half, and marked through its middle by a slender, crenu- 

 late, dusky streak; fringe dark brown, variegated with pale brown, vinous, and yel- 

 lowish brown, the darker tints at the nervure tips, the paler at the interspaces. 



Beneath; fora ivings gray broAvn, more or less tinged with ferruginous, tlie fulvous 

 bars in the cell of the upper surface repeated more broadly and with the addition of a 

 basal patch edged externally only witli black, besides which the base of the lower 

 median interspace and the parts about it are sometimes flushed Avith fulvous ; between 

 the black edged fulvous bars, the cell and the costal border above them are pale graj'; 

 the subcostal nervure, as far as a little beyond the tip of the cell, broadly but thinly 

 clothed with rather delicate, recumbent hairs ; the ocelli and the broad whitish belt are 

 also repeated beneath the latter, generally a little paler, and extending to the outer 

 and inner border, and thus completely enclose the large ocellus, which not infre- 

 quently shows a flusli of pale fulvous next the lower outer angle of the wing ; as 

 above, the interior border of the pale belt is better defined than the exterior, and is 

 l)ordered more or less broadly with blackish fuscous ; the wing is edged externally 

 with ferruginous, and at about an intersijace's distance further from the border in front 

 tlian behind, is a submarginal, broader, but generally more or less interrupted and 

 creuulate, ill-defined, dusky stripe, heaviest on the medic-submedian interspace; the 

 fringe is dusky, with a darker thread passing through the middle, beyond Avhich, in 

 the interspaces, it is interrupted as above with white. Hind wings of the same general 

 tint as the apex of the fore wings, but sometimes a little brighter or darker. In some 

 females it becomes wholly and deeply tinged Avith vino-ferruginous, but this is generally 

 limited to a straight, transverse, tapering band, Avith ill-defined borders passing from 

 the middle of the outer half of the costal border toAvard, but scarcely reaching, a 

 point just above the anal angle, and Avhich includes at its outer border tAvo equal and 

 rather small, circular ocelli, one in the lower subcostal, the other in the lower median 

 interspace; these are often rather obscure, but sometimes bright and distinct, and then 

 occupy nearly the width of the interspace, and are formed similarly to the larger one 

 in the fore Aving, except in having usually more blue in the centre ; in the interspaces 

 between them and in the upper subcostal interspace, are little brown dots, in a regular 

 series with tlie ocelli, occasionally in the interspaces bordering the upper ocellus, 

 deA'eloping into minute ocelli, patterned after that betAveen them, and then touching 

 its border; occasionally the spot in the upper subcostal only develops in this way; 

 an irregular, crenulate tliread of dark ferruginous crosses the wing just beyond the 

 middle, and sometimes marks the limits of the tapering stripe Avhere the latter is 

 broadest; it starts from the costal nervure opposite, a little beyond the middle of the 

 costal border, and passes in a nearly straight general direction (ahvays removed a 

 little toward the base in the lower subcostal interspace, and from the base in the next 

 interspace below) toward the middle or a little beyond the middle of the outer two- 

 thirds of the medio-submedian interspace, Avhere, nearer the submedian than the 

 median, it is bent, Avith a rounded curve at right angles toAvai'd the inner border, and 

 dies out before reaching the internal nervure ; it crosses the upper median interspace 

 just beyond its extreme base; Avithin this line, and especially about midAvay betAveen 

 it and the base, the Aving is crossed by a number of sliglit, more or less distinct, curv- 

 ing, transverse streaks of a similar color; they are particularly to be noticed in the 



