DEBIS I. 



DEBIS PORTLANDIA, 1-4. 



Debis Portlandia, Fabricius, Spec. Ins., II, p. 82, 1781 ; Boisduval and Leeonte, Lepid. de I'Amer., p. 226, pi. 



58, 1833 ; Morris, Lepid. N. Am., p. 79, 1862; Edwards, Can. Ent., XIV, p. 84, 1882 ; Fernald, But. 



of Maine, p. 70, 1884 ; French, But. of East. U. S., p. 29, 1886. 

 Andromacha, HUbner, Samml. Ex. Schmett., I, 1806-1816 ; Say, Amer. Ent. II, pi. 36, 1825; Morris, 1. c, 



p. 78, 1862. 



Male. — Expand.s from 1.9 to 2.2 inches. 



Upper side yellow-brown, or wood-brown, individuals varying in depth of 

 color ; the extra-discal area paler, more yellow, variable ; on this a row of four 

 oval or rounded blind ocelli, sometimes unequal throughout, sometimes the pos- 

 terior pair very large, equal ; often the spot on lower discoidal interspace want- 

 ing, or reduced to a point ; these ocelli are of a soft brown hue, and each lies 

 within a pale yellowish ring which fades into the ground ; on primaries, owing to 

 the transparency of the wing, the outer edge of the basal area is dark, particu- 

 larly next costa, and projects in an angle, often double-toothed, on upper median 

 nervule ; a similar dark edging is sometimes to be seen on secondaries, but usu- 

 ally there is nothing of this ; secondaries have also a series of five ocelli, unequal, 

 the middle one often very small, sometimes altogether wanting ; sometimes the 

 upper pair are very large, equal ; both wings bordered by two fine parallel dark 

 lines ; fringes brown at the ends of the nervules, gray or whitish in the inter- 

 spaces. 



Under side paler brown, with a slight violet reflection ; the basal areas edged 

 without by a common dark stripe, sinuous, projecting considerably against both 

 cells and on inner margin of primaries ; halfway between this and base a similar 

 stripe, nearly straight, bending upwards on lower median interspace of seconda- 

 ries and joining the outer stripe on sub-median nervule ; on the arc of each cell 

 a dark stripe ; the extra-discal area of primaries lighter, of secondaries same as 

 the basal, with a dull yellow or whitish diffuse band passing entirely round each 

 series of ocelli ; these have now small white pupils, and each is within a definite 



