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Upper ocellus of primary single, all the spots beneath, rounded........ (type) alope. 
Primaries without the distinct yellow band, ocellate spots often reduced in 
size to mere dots without centre; else as in the preceeding..... 
(variety) nephele. 
Group SILVESTRIS. 
Inner margin of discal band of secondaries but slightly angulate or crenate, 
not strongly dentate. 
Primaries above and beneath with distinct rufous tinge on disc............. Meadii. 
Primaries without rufous tinge. 
Outer margin of discal band of secondaries not strongly dentate on cell...gthenele. 
Outer margin of discal band of secondaries deeply dentate on cell........ Baroni. 
Inner margin of discal band of secondaries very strongly and distinctly dentate 
and angulate .. asc REE oo Ba Seta Shera ch aegis, Lake aber Liha Silvestris, 
S. Wheeleri, Edw. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. IV, 343, Mead, Wheeler’s Rep. V, 
773, pl. 39. Hoffmani, Streck. Lep. Rhop.-Het. p. 31, pl. 4 Q, p. 66, pl. 8%. 
This species is easily known by the unusually pale color, the twin 
upper spot on primaries, the spots on upper surface of secondaries, which 
are usually three, the lenticular and spots on secondaries beneath. 
Mr. .Edwards states that both of the larger spots on secondaries beneath 
are lenticulate, but in one specimen I have seen, the lower one was dist- 
inctly round while the upper was elongate oval; in other respects the 
specimen agreed with the typical form. ‘The number of ocelli on upper 
surface of secondaries varies from one to three, three being the more 
usual number. Mr. Strecker considers this an aberation of alope, but 
while it is undoubtedly an offspring from the same stock and _ is closely 
related to it, I think we are hardly justified in classing it as an aberation 
in view of the agreement between all the specimens heretofore discovered 
and the want of really intermediate forms. The colors an Mr. Strecker’s 
plates are too dark for this species. 
FHlab. Calif., Ariz.. Nev., Col. 
S. alope, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III, 1, p. 229 (Papilio); Bd. Lec. Lep. 
Am. Sep. pl. 59, larva, pupa and imago of pegale. 
A. maritima Edw., Can. Ent. 12, 23; v. Tewana Edw., Can. Ent. 12. 24; form 
pegale Fabr. Syst. Ent. 494 (Papilio); form nephele Kirby, Faun. Bor. Am. IV, 
297 (Hipparchia); incana Edw. C. F. 12, 91; v. olympus Edw. Can. Ent. 12, 31; 
vy. boopis Behr. Pr. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sc. III, 164; v. ariane Bd. Ann. Soc, Ent. Fr. 2 
new ser. X, 307; v. Gabbii Edw., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. II], 193 (Hipparchia). 
This is the most variable of all our species and in times gone by, 
its variations have led to differences of opinion among entomologists, 
and may lead to more. In Mr Edward's article ‘‘On certain species of 
Satyrus” in Vol, 12 of the Canadian Entomologist he gives the synonomy 
