1776 BUTTERFLIES BEYOND NEW ENGLAND. 



generally absent from the male, generally present in the female, and in one female 

 before me which has no spot in the subcosto-median interspace there is a large ocellus 

 in the next to the lowest subcostal interspace almost as large as the one below it and 

 marlied with a slender median longitudinal line of white scales. Normally the male 

 has no sexual streak. In the hind wings a similar, smaller, round, generally white- 

 pupiled ocellus is found a little before the middle of the outer half of the lower median 

 interspace. 



Beneath : Fore xoings of the same ground color as above, perhaps a little paler, the 

 costal margin with a broad brown border, finely irrorate, excepting at the tip , with 

 black and white, the tip ashen flecked with black ; the outer margin with a brown 

 border, narrowing downward ; the same dark bar depends from the costal margin at 

 the outer edge of the cell, again more distinct in the female than in the male, but in 

 addition to this there is, at least in the female, a very broad, obscure, median band 

 washed in brown, broader than the width of the cell, crossing the whole wing and 

 bent at the median nervure; this is generally almost entirely absent from the male; 

 the ocelli of the upper surface are almost exactly repeated beneath, but in the excep- 

 tional female noted, there is no ocellus in the next to tJie lowest subcostal interspace. 

 Sind wings varying very much in general color but the general effect is an ashen gray, 

 deeper in some parts of the wing than in others and especially deepest along the 

 outer margin and more especially in an exceedingly broad mesial or pre-mesial belt of 

 irregular outline, more or less sinuous, approaching the base at the subcostal nervure, 

 and the outer margin at the tip of the cell ; this is usually more distinct in the female 

 than in the male, but is never entirely absent; the ashen tints prevail along the costal 

 border, especially on either side of the mesial belt, but in some specimens it covers the 

 largest part of the wing ; the broad mesial belt is more distinct at its margins than 

 elsewhere and in some individuals this is almost the only token of its presence; the 

 intermingling of colors on the wing is largely in the presence of short, transverse, 

 tremulous threads of blackish brown on the paler brown ground; this is most distinct 

 along the inner margin of the wing; fringe of all the wings black, narrowly inter- 

 rupted in the middle of the interspaces with white; the extreme outer edge with a 

 thread of black upon both wings ; the only mark of an ocellus on the under surface is 

 an extremely minute one, usually pupiled, in the same place as above, but a similar one 

 is sometimes seen in the lower subcostal interspace where it is sometimes not pupiled, 

 and the ocellus is more commonly present in the female than in the male. Expanse of 

 wings (J , 58-C3 mm. ; $ , 64-69 mm. 



The following account of the early stages is given by Fletcher (loc. cit.) : — 



Egg. Large, globular; rather higher _than broad, flattened at top and bottom; 

 coarsely ribbed from top to bottom with about twenty ribs, a few of which divide at the 

 bottom ; between these are zigzag furrows crossing from rib to rib. Eggs laid on 6th 

 July hatched on 26th, the larva eating a narrow strip from the egg shell round the top 

 and then pushing its way out leaving the egg-shell almost intact. Very few of the 

 larvae ate their egg shells. 



Caterpillar. First stage. The young larvae are larger [3 mm.] than those of jutta, 

 and have the heads more hairy ; there are also a few black spots about the head which 

 do not occur in jutta. Upon the head and body of both species are some curious mam- 

 miform hairs. The larvae are very sluggish, and seem to like to perch upon dead 

 leaves of grass during the daytime. 



Second stage. The first moult took place about 18th August, after which the 

 larvae were [8.4 mm.] in length. Head round, flattened in front, greenish white^ 

 punctured, bearing on each side three stripes continuous with the stripes of the body 

 and composed of the black hollows of the roughened surface ; the two upper stripes 

 join at their tips just above the ocelli. General colour, dull, glaucous, greenish white, 

 with brown stripes. On [the first thoracic] segment, just above and anterior to the 

 spiracles is, on each side in both this species and jutta, one long thoracic bristle 

 curved forward. Food, Carices and grasses. 



Third itaye. Ten days after moult. General appearance greenish gray, with red- 



