134 BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM, SOC. VOL. VI. April 1884} 
S. sylvestris Edw. Pr. Ac. N.-Sc. Phil. 1866, 162; oetus Bd. Lep. Cal. 
1869, 63,; Edw. ae Ent. 12, 55 (pr. syn.); phocus Edw., Tr. A. E. _ Soc. Ve 14; 
var. charon Edw. ‘Ir. A. E. Soc. Wy, 69. 
The co form of this species is of the usual smoky brown, color, 
the ¥' with /wo small blind ocelli on primaries and the usual black. sexual 
dash beneath the cell The under side is tinted yellow, the ocelli are 
larger, pupilled and ringed with yellow. . Secondaries with a broad discal 
band, more or less distinctly marked, outlines very irregular “on the outer 
side against the cell two long serrations projecting with a sharp and deep 
sinus, between them”, on the inner side dentate and scolloped. . The Os 
are larger, paler, markings beneath more distinct, -ocelli of primaries 
above, larger, pupilled and ringed, anal ocellus of secondaries usually 
present. Mr. Edwards refers oe/vs Bd. as a synonym. and as he has the 
type he is probably correct in this. 
var. charon Edw. Mr. Edwards says of this insect, comparing ie. 
with sylvestris, that it is usually smaller, the ¢' with a sg blind ocellus, 
the Q with two ocelli with faint yellow rings. Beneath, yellow tinted, 
secondaries sometimes with a faint gray shade beyond the band; primaries 
with two. complete ocelli, the rings yellow, but the lower one often, re-- 
duced to a black dot. 
‘Phocus Edw. ‘This is said to bee a Ge tehion of Lia au ohele 
larger, beneath without gray, the band, of secondaries frequently wholly ; 
absent but’ sometimes sufficiently indicated to show that itis like . 
sylvestris. 
_ Taken together all these ‘forms are separated from all our other - 
species ‘by the jagged outlines of the inner margin of the discal band of 
secondaries, and by the lack of a complete transverse line on“ the under » 
side of | primaries just within the ocelli—a character which Mr. Edwards 
doés not seem to mention ‘in his paper. In most spécimens there is no 
trace of it, but in a few it is badly indicated and is so far as my material 
is concerned, never’ come, 
‘In the series before me are 15 sylvesirts, 10’ charon and ‘6 phocus, the 
os predominating in the proportion of 2 to‘1;: most of these are from ~ 
the collections of the survey, but some are on Calif, Nev., Mont.’and © 
Col. The specimens from W. T. were carefully darneted from the large 
number collected, as variations, and I have ‘formed a complete series from 
phocus to sylvestris. | have specimens (j*) with two distinct ocelli; (blind 
always) with one distinct and one faint; ditto on one wing, one. only on 
