74 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Under side paler. From the base of all the wings to the middle, 

 there are short brown streaks. The primaries with two transverse 

 brown lines, the outer one wavy, and the edge with a black ray. 

 The secondaries are traversed by two wavy lines ; towards the 

 outer border, an irregular violet spot surrounded with black, en- 

 closing two small silver points, one at each end. Between this 

 and the edge is a series of silver points, confluent towards the 

 anal angle. 



United States. — Expands an inch and a half. 



Boisd. 



3. N. sosybius Fab. Ent. Syst. Ill, 219. N. camertus Cram. Herbst. 



Figured in Cram. pi. 293. Herbst, pi. 195. Boisd. et Lee. pi. 63. 



Wings entire, brownish ; upper side without spots ; round the 

 outer edge of all are three darker lines. 



Under side, which is lighter, has three transverse, obscure, un- 

 dulated lines. Discoidal cellule with a curved streak, and on the 

 secondaries a similar streak extending obliquely from one line to 

 the other, besides three fine lines round the edge. 



The primaries have four or five ocelli, and the secondaries six. 



The latter are black, with a simple white pupil and yellow iris; 

 some of them are less distinct than others, and sometimes almost 

 obsolete. 



United States. — Expands an inch and a quarter. 



Boisd. 



4. N. areolatus Godt. Encyc. Method. IX, 494. Figured in Sm. Abb. 



I, pi. 13. Boisd. et Lee. pi. 63. 



Wings entire, brownish ; upper side without spots. 



Under side paler, with two ferruginous transverse lines. Be- 

 tween these lines there is an elongated, ferruginous circle, in which 

 the primaries have three or four ocelli, with a bluish pupil and 

 yellow iris ; the secondaries inclose in this circle six ocelli, of 

 which the third, fourth and fifth are oblong, with the pupil oval. 



Southern States. — Expands an inch and a half. 



Boisd. 



5. N. canthus Linn. Syst. Nat. 768. N. boisduvalli Harris. Figured 



in Boisd. et Lee. pi. 60. 



Wings entire ; bright brown above, darker towards the ex- 

 tremity, with four ocelli, two of which are not always distinct. 



