SATYRUS I. 



SATYRUS PEGALA, 1-5: 8. 



Sa/i/rtis Pegala (pe-ga'l.i), Fabi-ic-ius, Syst. Ent., p. 494. 1775. Eilwanls, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil., Vol. VI, 



p. 195. 1866; id., Can. Ent, Vol. XI r, p. 5. 1880. 

 Alnpc.J var., Boisduval and Li'conlu, Lcp. (li> rAiniT., pi. 228, p. 59. 1833. 

 Form Pic(;.\lk, J. H. Smith, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Vol. VI, p. 128. 1884. 



Male. — ExpancLs from 2.4 to nearly 3 inches. 



Upper side dark brown ; hind margins bordered by two fine darker parallel 

 lines, a little within wliich is a stripe of same color ; primaries have an extra- 

 discal deep ochre-yellow transverse band, broadest anteriorly, incised on basal 

 side at the npper median nervule ; on this is a single black ocellns, lying across 

 the discoidal interspaces, with a small central cluster of blue scales, a few of 

 which are often replaced hy white ; occasionally there is a black dot, or even a 

 small blind spot, suggesting a second ocellus, in middle of second median inter- 

 space. 



Secondaries have a black ocellus on second median interspace, in yellow ring, 

 with small white, or blue and white, pupil ; fringes of both wings concolored. 



Under side yellow-brown, with a gray tint, most decided on apical area of 

 primaries and beyond disk of secondaries; the i)and repeated, paler; the ocellus 

 repeated, a little enlarged, the cluster of scales enlarged, often elongated into a 

 blue nebulous streak, having, in the end toward base, a solid nucleus of white ; 

 the marginal lines and stripe conspicuous ; the brown area covered densely with 

 abbreviated dark streaks, Avhich over bases and disks form somewhat concentric 

 broken rings, limited without by a common dark stripe; this on primaries edges 

 the band, on secondaries is irregularly sinuous, throwing out a rounded projec- 

 tion against cell, followed by a rounded sinus on second median interspace ; the 

 ocelli are si.v. in two groups of three, each on a patch of clear dark brown, one 

 across the lower subcostal and discoidal interspaces, the other across the median; 

 these are either round or oval, individuals varying, the middle one of each group 



