GEIROCHEILUS I. 



GEIROCHEILUS TRITONIA, 1-4. 



Geirocheilus Trilonia, Edwards, 5i Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, V, p. 18. 1874. 



Male. — Expands 2 to 2.3 inches. 



Upper side velvety blackish-brown, changing to brown on hind margin of 

 primaries, vfith. an olivaceous tint at apex ; costal edge of primaries near apex 

 yellow-white ; beyond disk a transverse row of four small white spots set in the 

 middle of the discoidal and median interspaces, the lower one smallest and some- 

 times wanting ; secondaries have a broad dull ferruginous marginal band, run- 

 ning from outer to inner angle, sometimes ending abruptly at lower sub-costal 

 nervule ; this band encloses next the margin a series of broad crenations of 

 darker color, the interior o£ each paler than the edges ; on the basal side of the 

 band, and a little within, some examples show two or three white points in the 

 middle interspaces, one to each ; fringes of primaries black at the tips of the 

 nervules, yellow-white in the interspaces, of secondaries nearly all black, or 

 brown-black, there being but a few light hairs in each interspace. 



Underside smoky-brown; the white spots repeated, enlarged, each forming the 

 pupil of a large rounded black ocellus ; secondaries have the band repeated, but 

 the red is brighter and variegated with lilac in nebulous clusters in and next the 

 nervules mostly, and over the posterior half are scattered yellow scales ; in the 

 sub-costal interspaces the red is mostly suppressed, and ground is nearly brown ; 

 on the basal edge of the band, upon clear red spaces, is a row of yellow points 

 and spots, commencing with a point on the lower sub-costal interspace, and end- 

 ing at sub-median nervure, just before which are two points. The three spots in 

 the median interspaces are crescent or V-shaped, varying in individuals ; the 

 crenations repeated, edged on the basal side by brown, ferruginous elsewhere, 

 and more or less dusted yellow. 



Body black-brown, beneath same, abdomen gray-brown ; legs brown on upper 

 side, all the joints whitish beneath, the last joint of the front pair entirely white, 



