EREBIA. 15 



The secondaries have six ocelli ; the anal one is of the ground 

 color, with a black pupil, indistinct. 



Under side paler, crossed with irregular wavy lines. The pri- 

 maries have four ocelli, with the pupil white. The secondaries 

 have six ocelli, five of which are contiguous. 



United States. — Expands nearly two inches. 



Boisd. 



[Fabricius has united the following with the preceding, but 

 Godart maintains that it is a distinct species. — J. G. M.] 



6. N. cantheus Fab. Ent. Syst. 486. 



Nearly the same size as N. canthus. Upper side blackish-brown, 

 without spots. Under side lighter, with two ferruginous, oblique, 

 common lines. The primaries have three small indistinct eyes. 

 The secondaries have six, of which the fifth is large ; the sixth, 

 which is at the anal angle, small. 



North America. 



GODAKT. 



EREBIA Dalman. 



Club of the antennae gradual. Eyes naked. Tibia shorter than 

 the tarsus. Only the costal of the primaries inflated. Species 

 rather small in size ; color dark brown ; usually a ferruginous 

 band or spots with small black eyes, pupils white. Sometimes 

 the eyes are obsolete and in their stead only black spots. Under 

 side paler ; a dark band marbled. Outer edge rounded. Palpi 

 with long hairs at the last joint ; antennae not annulated. 



1. E. discoidalis Kirby. Faun. Bor. Am. IV, 298, pi. 3. 



Body brown ; antennae annulated with white ; wings entire, 

 brown ; costa spotted with gray ; a triangular obscure reddish 

 tawny discoidal stripe extends from the base to the posterior mar- 

 gin of the primaries, and is discoverable also on the under side, 

 where the wing is faintly clouded with gray at the tip ; the secon- 

 daries underneath are indistinctly marbled and clouded with gray 

 or whitish ; fringe whitish and brown alternately. 



Canada. — Expands an inch. 



Kirby. 



