SATYRUS I. 



largest ; each in yellow ring, and with blue or blue and white pupils, the clusters 

 varying sometimes as described on primaries. 



Body concolored with wings; logs and palpi dark brown; antennce brown, 

 finely annulated with white; club ferruginous. (Figs. 1, 2.) 



Female. — Expands about three inches. 



Upper side color of male; the baud broader; the ocellus sometimes large, 

 with large central cluster; some examples have an additional spot, like some 

 males, and occasionally there is a second ocellus quite as large as the first, and 

 as conspicuously pupilled. Under side more gray, sometimes very light on sec- 

 ondaries ; there is also a trace of a brown stripe on same wings near base, par- 

 ticularly across cell. (Figs. 3, 4, vars. 5, 8.') 



This species varies in respect to the ocelli of both surfaces. In my paper 

 referred to, in the Canadian Entomologist, I stated that I had before me twenty- 

 nine examples, being all I had in my own collection, or could borrow from cor- 

 respondents. Of these, twenty-one were males, eight females. Of the males, 

 fourteen had one ocellus on fore wing, two had an ocellus and a small black 

 spot, six had the ocellus and a mere point. Beneath, seventeen had six ocelli on 

 hind wing, three had five, and one had five on one wing and six on the other. 

 All had the ocellus on upper side of hind wing. 



Of the females, five had one ocellus only ; one had one and a small spot, while 

 two, one of which is figured on the Plate (5), had two large, equal, and conspic- 

 uou.sly pupilled ocelli. On under side, six had six ocelli, one had five, and 

 one had five on one wing and six on the other. " The uniformity of these char- 

 acters — the ocellus at inner angle always present, and the number of small 

 ocelli, which are scarcely ever less than six and never less than five — in so 

 many examples brought from various quarters, contrasts strikingly with the 

 great variability of Alope and Neplide in the same points " (p. 54). 



One of the two-eyed examples seems to have been figured hy Boisduval and 

 Leconte, after Abbot, for Alope. Dr. Boisduval says in the text that lie regards 

 Pegala as a one-eyed variety of Alope. In my copy of the work, the larva is 

 represented as having the dorsum green, the side white, divided longitudinally 

 by a narrow gray band. This white may hnve originally been colored yellow, 

 as Mr. Smith says his copy of the book shows ^yellow, with green over the gray 

 band. But all this is quite unlike Alope, and its co-form Nep)liele, as may be 



' Fig. 8, on the Plate, represents a fo;e wing of Pegala, variet}-, from Florida, and the reading at bottom is 

 incorrect. 



