THE MEADOW-BROWNS OR SATYRS 221 



this butterfly, and such refreshment added to the moisture 

 which they suck from the margin of the spring is all that I 

 have ever seen them partake." 



The Eyed Brown 



Satyrodes canthus 



For delicacy of gray-brown color tones few butterflies 

 can compare with this exquisite creature. It seems in- 

 deed to have succeeded in a modest attempt to obliterate 

 itself, for even when the spread wings are placed against 

 a clear white background they can scarcely be called con- 

 spicuous and it is very probable that when the butterfly 

 is at rest in its native haunts, with wings closed together 

 so that only the very delicate light brown color-tones of 

 the under surface are revealed, it actually becomes in- 

 visible. 



The upper surface of the wings is broadly washed with a 

 gray-brown color which runs into a suggestion of a hghter 

 band near the outer margin of the front pair. The 

 upper surface of the hind wings is almost uniforml}^ washed 

 with this same brown color which is interrupted only by 

 very fine, double lines at the outer margin and a sub- 

 marginal row of delicate ocelli which are larger than the 

 somewhat similar sub-marginal row of eye-spots on the 

 front wings. The under surface is much lighter in color, 

 with distinct striations extending across the main surface 

 of both wings from front to back and with some very at- 

 tractive ocelli arranged as a sub-marginal series each with 

 a central white eye. 



This is distinctly a northern species, having rather a 



