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Nearctic N eonympha 
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amined in its action upon the discal and subterminal lines, it 
may be described as invading the termen from the tornus, with 
its inward edge causing the subterminal line to arch inversely 
to termen in Cu 2 , then bursting through in Cui, diverting basally 
the broken end of the subterminal line and swelling strongly 
towards the second discal; beyond Cu x it pushes up even 
farther, touching (except for a few dusky scales in between) 
the second discal, which its pressure forces to arch in M 3 -M 2 , 
and then reaching the termination of R s . This border, which 
produces a strong avian or “scaly” effect, encloses prsetermi- 
nally, in M 3 and M 2 , two subreniform (twinned) ocelli, jet- 
black, each delicately rimmed and threaded through with light 
fulvous so as to form a capital “B” facing the termen, with the 
interneural folds faintly traced in a paler tint through the dark 
cinereous irroration; in each black cell of each “B” a bright 
silver “T” glitters, its stem projecting basally, its crossbar 
subparallel to the termen and neither stem nor bar touching 
the rim. The embossed silver of these four “T” marks is sup- 
plied by the breaking up of a silver line which starts from 
about Cu 2 (in continuation and sublimation of a vaguely dis- 
cernible dark prseterminal line from tornus) ; forms in Cui, 
upon the interneural ray and beneath the end of the subtermi- 
nal line, a “W” (as viewed from base), where an ocellus, visible 
as a spot on the upperside, seems to be in the process of being 
built with the help of the dark pigment which is channelled 
terminally by the interneural fold from the end of the subter- 
minal line; then traverses the kernels of the spots in M 3 and 
M 2 and produces farther up the V-shaped pairs of silver dashes 
already mentioned; the first pair of these suggests the forma- 
tion of a rudimental fourth spot whose interneural ray looks 
like a terminal projection of the second discal line. There is a 
thin bright fulvous margin from tornus to middle of cell Cui, 
running between the cilia and the silver line (incidentally, in 
regard to these very Coenonympha-like markings, it should be 
noted that the ocelli in the latter genus are formed subtermi- 
nally, not praeterminally as in this section of N eonympha). 
Female. Exp. 21.5. Upperside pale reddish brown with pink- 
ish tone. Primaries: with faint adumbration post-cellularly 
and terminally, but on the whole producing a unicolorous im- 
pression. Secondaries: evenly rounded, as in male; with dim 
greyish shade surrounding the rather blurred and formless dark 
