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Var. Marittma, Edw. — This form is of small size, 

 dark color, and the band on the fore wings reddish 

 yellow. 



Martha's Vineyard, Long Island, Eastern New Jersey. 



Dimorphic form, Nephele, Kirby. — Male. — Upper 

 surface blackish brown, the marginal lines and stripe 

 as in Alope, but often obsolete. The fore wings have 

 two small black ocelli, placed as in Alope, without ring 

 or band, but in some examples a faint yellowish shade 

 represents the ring ; sometimes a white dot in each ocellus, 

 but usually the lower one is blind. Hind wings with 

 or without ocellus, but if present it is blind and without 

 ring. 



Under side dark yellow-brown, faintly streaked as in 

 Alope, but with less distinctness, and in many examples 

 the discal stripe is nearly or quite obsolete, especially on 

 the hind wings. The ocelli of the fore wings are en- 

 larged, the rings distinct but not clear yellow, being 

 dusky, or more or less obscured. The hind wings have 

 small ocelli in fine russet rings, with central white dots 

 and a few bluish scales ; the number varies from none to 

 six, but the largest proportion have six, and very few 

 have less than three. 



Female. — This has the upper side lighter and more 

 brown ; the area which in Alope is occupied by the band 

 is of a slightly paler shade than the rest of the wing. 

 The ocelli are large, with white centres and blue scales, 

 and either without rings or imperfectly ringed with 

 dusky yellow, the hind wings either with or without an 

 ocellus. The under side is paler, the area of the band a 

 little lighter than elsewhere, the rings sometimes quite 



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