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within which is a black stripe. The fore wings have 

 a transverse yellow band beyond the cell, sometimes 

 a little ochraceous, and often more or less encroached 

 upon by the brown ground. On this area are two ocelli, 

 round, black, of variable size, and with or without a 

 central point, which is white with blue scales. Be- 

 hind the cell is a blackish indistinct sexual dash in the 

 males. The hind wings have a small ocellus in a yellow 

 ring near the anal angle (often wanting). 



Under side yellow-brown ; the band enlarged and of 

 a paler color ; the ocelli repeated, enlarged ; the marginal 

 lines distinct ; the brown area covered with abbreviated 

 darker streaks, which over the base and disks form some- 

 what concentric broken rings, limited without by a 

 common dark stripe. On the fore wings this stripe 

 borders on the yellow band; on the hind wings it is 

 irregularly sinuous from margin to margin, throwing 

 out a rounded prominence against the cell, followed by 

 a rounded sinus on the median interspace. Across the 

 middle of the cell, and below it, a dark stripe ; the extra 

 discal area less streaked. The ocelli vary from none to 

 six, the full number being most often present, disposed 

 in two groups of three, the middle one of each group 

 the largest ; all black, rounded, in narrow yellow rings, 

 and with white dots in the centre edged by blue scales. 



Female. This differs from the male in the band being 

 generally broader, clearer, and well defined on both edges, 

 the ocelli well developed, with occasionally additional 

 black points on the hind wings corresponding to the ocelli 

 on the under side. A larger percentage than of the 

 males have no ocelli on the under side of the hind wings. 



New York to North Carolina. 



