SMEKINTHUS EXCAECATA. 55 



somewhat triangular median space crossed witii sliades of darker hue, from tiiis outwards are various transverse 

 wavv lines and shades of brown; a small black discal spot; emarginatious acutely dentate and white. Sec- 

 ondaries, base and middle rose color; costal and exterior margins fawn color, on the former some paler lines ; 

 a large black ocellus with a single blue pupil ; a pale brown shade crosses the wing transversely from the apex 

 to the ocellus, and beyond this to the anal angle, whore it assumes a darker color, and with which it connects 

 the latter ; emarginatious white. 



Under surface ; primaries, basal half rose colored, exterior to this is a pink transverse band, traverscil 

 and ede-ed with brown lines, beyond which to the exterior margin the space is chocolate brown with an uneven 

 pink tnuisvei-se line widest in the middle, where it joins the inner band of same color; a dark yellow patch 

 at posterior angle. Secondaries, chocolate brown with a pink median bantl, which is joined outwardly in the 

 middle by a trumgular spot of the same color ; dark yellow apical and anal dashes. 



Female. Expands :i to 3| inches. 



Marked as in the male but paler in color, and the rosy hue of upper surface of secondaries extends to the 



exterior margin. , ,, . i -i i 



The larva is light green, palest on the back, with white granulations, pale yellow stripes on tlie sides, and 

 .rreen caudal horn. ° It feeds on the leaves of various kinds of Apple, and according to Abbot on the Wild Rose 

 (Kosa Carolina). Mr. Lintner also found it on Maple. 



It is the commonest of our species and occurs throughout the Atlantic States as well as in Ohio, Ken- 

 tucky, Indiana, Arc, &c. 



"Some Lepidopterists consider Geyer's figures, 835, 836 in the "Zutrage," as representing a distinct species, 

 this theory is advocated by Groto & Robinson in the notes appended to their Cat. of 18C5,* and in Grote's 

 Cat. of 1873, to both of which I have referred in the introductory remarks to this paper; I cannot imagine 

 how any one after seeing Geyer's figures could for a moment suppose them to represent anything else than 

 Excaecata, they are certainly more recognizable than Abbot's,t which has the primaries painted rose color like 

 the secondaries, besides, Geyer's descriptive remarks! are pertinent and to the point; he even mentions that 

 the female (of which he gave no figure) is generally larger and less bright in color ; he gives its locality as 



Pennsylvania. r. , , • i • 



The most astounding revelation that we find regarding this species is where Prof. Packard tells us in his 

 Guide that the ocellus or eye-like spot of hind wings has " two or three blue pupils!"§ such utterly erroneous 

 and culpably careless assertions are the more lamentable as the book in question was souglitafter more parti- 

 cularly by beginners and those who had not yet acquired the knowledge sufficient to discriminate between the 

 chaff and the good grain. 



SMEUINTHUS MYOPS. abbot & Smith. 

 Insects of Georgia, Vol. I, p. 51, t. 20, (1797.) 



(PLATE VII, FIG. 9, d^.) 



Male and Female. ExpanI 2:^ to 2i inches. 



Head and body chocolate and purplish brown ; a golden yellow dorsal ridge on thorax. On each side 

 of abdomen a row of irregularlv shaped yellow spots ; a dark brown dorsal line. 



Upper surface ; primariespurplish brown ornamented with lines and shades of rich chocolate ; a brown 

 discal dot; a bright yellow spot near the inner angle and another not far from the apex. Secondaries yellow, 

 broadly bordered with chocolate at the costa and outer half of exterior margin ; a yellow spot at apex; two 

 pale transverse lines on brown margin near and at the costa ; a black ocellus, with blue centre, between a\ Inch 

 and the inner margin the color is pale brown and purplish. 



Under surface ; primaries, basal half yellowish and plain ; outer half markc<l and colored as above, but 

 more brilliantly. Secondaries with a median band, composed of alternate pale and dark lines, succeeded out- 

 wardly by a somewhat broken one of rich yellow, the space beyond which to the margin is chocolate. 



* " Smkri-jthus Pavoninus : A hitherto unidontiftcd, and, since Gcyer wrote, unnoticed species of SmeriTilhns. which the nuthor mentions havim; 

 received from Pennlj^vania It seems allied to S. E.cac'cana: while Geyor compares it with the European SO«H«/«a; compared w 

 Geyer's hgures ofler too many points of distinctiveness to allow us to consider it as the species intended. Giotc 6c Eobinson, Pioc. i,nt. hoc, ol 

 Phila., Vol. V, p. 185, 



I^pII'^a^'pavoSiIa' D^?rul!fe\4''sp'^^^^^ verwande art ist jedoch durch die eckigere gestalt der vorderflugel ihre durchaus 



braine Qrundflrbtund dettlichere Zeiehnuns, so wie durch den blinden Augenfletk der hiuterflugel, von ^er angefuhrt^.n genugeiid untersch^^ 

 DasWeib is gewohnlich viel grosser, uud in der Farbung weniger bunt. Heimath, Pennsylvanion, Ton Herrn Gumm. Gejer, /Outrage zur 

 Sammlung Exotischer Sehmetterlinge, p 12, (1837.) ... ,,, . - , i i, „;,i. »„,„„., t>.,.i^« i.i.,o r.ii.,iio '' 



§"S. Excaecalus, Smith has the hind wings rosy on the inner angle. The "ocellus" or eye-lllte spot is blaci", with two oi thice blue pupils. 

 Packard's Guide to the study of Insects, p 275, (1869.) 



