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a marginal yellow streak ; two posterior eyelets, with white 

 pupils and hlack iridcs. The primary underneath, yellowish, 

 clouded with dark brown, having an obsolete streak com- 

 posed of dark brown crescents. The secondary yellowish, 

 a little clouded towards the base with dark broivn ; with a 

 small and nearly obliterated eye, with a l)lack iris, four 

 dark brown spots, between which and the posterior margin 

 is a streak composed of dark brown crescents. 



Caterpillar. 



Chrysalis. 



Obsermlion, This insect has not been taken since the 

 time of Pctiver. 



IIIPPARCHIA JANIRA, MEADOW BROWN. 



U-tmn, pi. 18. Donvvan. v. 9, p. 320. Duncan, pi. 24, Jig. 1, 2. 



UiitterJIy. Wings of the female above brown, sometimes 

 nearly black. The prunary above, with a tawny-orange 

 irregular band or blot ablireviated at both ends, and con- 

 taining an eyelet with a black iris and white pupil, between 

 the band and the base is an obscure tawny longitudinal 

 blot ; in some specimens the eyelet is merely cinctured with 

 tawny orange, with a very obscure tawny blot behind it ; 

 tmderneath tawny-orange, with a paler band towards tlie 

 posterior margin, eyelet as above, but with a double jnipil, 

 margin embro\vned ; in some specimens, the eyelet has 

 only one pupil, and the margins of the wings are brown. 

 The secondary wings scalloped brown, with an indistinct 

 paler band towards the posterior margin, imderncath with 

 more than the anterior half tawny-brown, terminating pos- 

 teriorly in an angular line, the posterior half is paler with 

 the margin eml>rowncd, the whole underside appears dusted 



