NEONYMPHA II. 



NEONYMPHA AREOLATUS, 1-5. 



Neonympha Areohtus, Abbot ami Smith, Insects of Georgia, I. pi. 13, 1797 ; Boisrluval and Leconle, 

 Lt-pid. de I'Aiiier., pi. 63, 1833; Edwards, Can. Ent., XIV. p. 163, 1882. 



Male. — Upper side brown, immaculate; fringes concolored. Under side 

 paler, with a gray tint ; hind margins edged by a common ferruginous stripe, a 

 little before which is a second, narrower on primaries, often broader on seconda- 

 ries ; on the basal areas two such stripes, not always reaching costa of primaries, 

 nearly parallel, the outer one somewhat sinuous; this outer stripe on secondaries 

 unites at the angles with the second marginal one, and forms an irregular oval 

 ring, within wdiich, in each interspace from the upper discoidal to submedian 

 inclusive, is a sub-oval, mostly long and narrow, dark brown spot in yellow ring, 

 and dotted with metallic bluish points or minute clusters of scales ; there is much 

 variation in these spots ; the upper one is small and sometimes wanting, and the 

 lower one, or fifth, is much smaller than either of the other three. Occasionally 

 there is a sub-oval ring on primaries also, enclosing one or two small ocelli in the 

 middle interspaces. 



Body above, color of wings ; beneath, the thorax gray-yellow, abdomen gray- 

 brown ; legs brown ; palpi buff, with dark brown hairs in front and at tips ; 

 antennfe dark above, buff below, club ferruginous. (Figs. 1, 2.) Fig. 5 repre- 

 sents a variety of the male on which the bands of secondaries are diffused. 



Female. — Expands 1.7 inch. 



Both sides colored and in general banded and spotted as the male, but often 

 the oval ring on primaries and the small spots are present. (Figs. 3, 4.) 



Egg. — Sub-globular, as high as broad, the base flattened; surface under a low 

 power smooth, but under a high one seen to be reticulated in irregular shallowly 

 excavated hexagons ; the micropyle in centre of a rosette of minute cells, five- 

 sided ; color pale yellow-green. (Figs, a, c^,) Duration of tliis stage about six 

 days. 



