look much like little gleaming dewdrops. Another characteristic marking of 

 these light-colored, flowerlike butterflies is a quartette of small dark flecks — one 

 fleck near the middle of each wing — which form, with the two club-tips of the 

 antennae, when the insect is symmetrically outspread, an almost perfect circle. 

 These six little marks look much like stamens, and greatly enhance the flower- 

 aspect, 4fnich often is yet further helped by a dusky clouding of the inner 

 portions of the wings, blending outward into light and inward darkening 

 toward the dark body; all of which produces a flowerlike appearance of 

 concavity. 



But to return to the subtler 'dazzling' coloration of the background- 

 picturing butterflies. One more important special marking of this kind must 

 be considered, namely, the so well-known 'ocellus' or eye spot, a marking 

 which occurs in many forms and on many animals, but probably reaches its 

 highest development among birds and butterflies. At its full, as it appears 

 on the Argus and Peacock Pheasants, and on several butterflies, an ( ocellus ' 

 is a clear and strong representation of a sharply shaded sphere, or even of a 

 ball and socket, forms which may fairly be said to represent the quintessence 

 of substantiality. Among ocellus-bearing butterflies, the genus Calligo is 

 particularly notable. Some of the members of this genus, such as C. eury- 

 lochus, are popularly known under the misnomer of "Owl Butterflies," from 

 the remarkable but undoubtedly fortuitous (?) resemblance of their under- 

 side, when the wings are outspread, to the face of an owl, with wide-open eyes. 

 The Calligos have already been mentioned among close-folding butterflies 

 whose undersides bear an exquisite picturing of more or less extended brown 

 forest views. In the midst of these finely marbled forest-pictures stand the 

 big, black-and-yellow eye spots, one on each hind wing. Except in flight — 

 when, indeed, the markings of the underside are so shadowed and jerked 

 about that they have little effect of any kind — only one ocellus can be seen 

 at a time, for the perching butterfly always ( ?) keeps its wings perpendicularly 

 folded. Each obliteratively-patterned side bears its one bold ocellus, which 

 acts as a loadstone or 'dazzler' to the sight, diverting it from the faintly- 



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