2.3 



Apatura Leilia. Edw. But. N. A. Vol. 2. i. 

 Female. — Expands 2.25 inch. 



Upper side ferruginous-brown, lighter than the male ; the 

 apical spots of primaries pure white, as are also the three at end 

 of cell, but those in the median interspaces are yellowish (in male 

 white); three black ocelli as in male. Under side as in male, the 

 base and posterior half of primaries being castaneous, the rest, 

 and all of secondaries, pearl-gray upon a brown sub-color ; the 

 space in cell of primaries between the two dark spots gray-white 

 (in male white); the ocelli on both wings repeated, enlarged, with 

 yellow rings, and in centre clusters of blue scales. 



A large number of both sexes were taken in southern Arizona, 

 in October. The male was described from three examples brought 

 in by the Wheeler expedition. 

 Thecla Itys. n. s. 

 Male. — Expands 1.3 inch. 



Upper side brown ; primaries have smooth oval sexual spot 

 on disk ; secondaries have a few scales of fulvous in lower median 

 interspace near margin and a whitish edge to margin between tail 

 and angle; tail single, of median length, tapering, black, with 

 white fringe on posterior side and at tip ; fringes of wings fuscous 

 next margins, sordid-white outside, between tail and angle long, 

 whitish, the ends of the hairs there black. 



Under side light gray-brown ; primaries have a sub-marginal 

 row of obsolescent spots, and an extra discal row of small rounded 

 black spots, the one on sub-median interspace not always present; 

 each spot edged with white ; on the arc a faint brown streak. Sec- 

 ondaries have a complete sub-marginal row of black points, or 

 small clusters of scales, on whitish ground ; at anal angle a velvet- 

 black patch, over which are a few orange scales and then black ; 

 in next interspace is a bluish spot, with black scales above ; and 

 in lower median interspace a small orange spot with black above 

 and below ; across disk a row of small round black spots in white 

 rings ; a brown streak on the arc. 



Body above brown ; beneath, thorax gray-white, abdomen 

 yellow-white ; legs gray ; palpi white ; antennae ringed, black and 

 white ; club black, the tip ferruginous. 

 Female. — Expands 1.3 inch. 



Upper side same color as male ; a small clear fulvous spot 

 near margin. In one example there is a second tail, very short, 

 black with white tip. In another this tail is wanting. Under side 

 as in male, but the discal spots are a little larger, as also is the 

 orange spot on secondaries, and the next three black spots anter- 

 ior to this have yellow scales on lower side. 

 From I 1^ 2 ? taken at Prescott. 

 The species belongs to the Acadica group 

 Thecla Leda. n. s. 

 Male. — Expands .85 inch. 



