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SYNOPSES OF BUTTERFLIES. 
APATURA, /ibr. 
The species of this genus have broad trigonate primaries, produced 
at the apex, and with even external margins: the secondaries are some- 
what narrow, and have the inner angle more or less produced in the 
males, but not so as to be caudate. The general color is livid or oli- 
vaceous brown varying in intensity in the specimens, and sometimes as- 
suming a reddish tint. ‘The outer half of the primaries is darker, macu- 
late with white spots. 
The species are closely related, and color and slight variation in 
maculation has been relied on, to separate the species heretofore des- 
cribed. There species are here recognized, and they may be distinguished 
as follows: 
Primaries with one or more large black extra discal spots (sometimes ocellate) surround- 
ed by ground color. 
Ground color pale livid or olive brown, size moderate.................... celtis, 
Ground color darker, more reddish brown, size larger......... An rene runvert sie alicia. 
Primaries with extra discal biack spots, replaced by one or more clear white 
A. celtis, Bd. Lec. Lep. Am. Sept. 210. t. 57, f. 3 & 4 larva and chrysalis. 
Edw. Butt. N. A. II, Pl. 1, Apatura f. 1, 2 & 3, (larva): lycaon Scudder, Syst. Rev. 
Am. Butt. 9, (1872):.? lycaon Fabr. Ent. Syst. II, 1, 228. 
Primaries near base, and secondaries olive brown; rest of fore wings 
blackish fuscous Two rows of white spots on primaries; the first apical, 
consisting of three or four; the other discal and across the wing consist— 
ing of seven. One extra median black ocellus. Secondaries with six 
marginal ocelli; a discal band of white spots on male. Beneath, base of 
forewings reddish; else gray with spots and ocelli as above. Secondaries 
of ¥$' prolonged at anal angle, of Q rounded. Larva subcylindric, 
tapering toward each end, anal segment bifid or furcate; head large, 
with two branched spines; color yellowish—green with whitish sides and 
bluish green longitudinal lines: incisures of segments darker; feeds on 
hackberry (Celtis occtdentahs). Chrysalis green, shaped much like that of 
Danas archippus, head slightly bifid. 
Butterfly expands 1.5—2 inches. Had. Fast U.S, 
