APATURA I. 
two faint fuscous spots in the cell; fringes white in the emarginations, fuscous 
at the ends of the nervules. 
Under side of primaries chestnut-red at base below the cell; also within the 
cell next base, but partly obscured by gray, especially along the sub-costal 
nervure; the remainder of the wing pearl-gray, showing a brown sub-color on 
the disk and in the middle of each interspace on the apical area, and at inner 
angle, the gray becoming suffused with pale blue as it approaches the hind mar¬ 
gin; this margin narrowly edged with yellow-brown; the sub-marginal lines 
repeated, distinct, blackish-brown; the white spots repeated, enlarged, and in 
addition, a white patch in the line with the outer series, on the costal margin ; 
tin lowei spot of this row, on the discoidal interspace, nearly covers a small 
ocellus, a narrow black ring only being discernible on the anterior side; but 
the } ellow iris is nearly complete ; the other three ocelli reappear, enlarged, 
each with its cluster of blue scales and a well-defined yellow iris; the cellular 
spots as on upper side, the intervening space being clear white. 
Secondaries pearl-gray, tinted with blue near hind margin; the gray shade 
least dense on the disk next before the cell, allowing a brown sub-color to ap¬ 
pear; the inner margin also bordered by a brown line ; the white discal patch 
and spots repeated, and the line of spots extended across the wing to inner 
margin, following the course of a dark wavy line ; the spots in the cell distinct, 
being two transverse bars, each prolonged into the next upper interspace; the 
ocelli repeated, each containing a large blue patch and edged by a narrow yellow 
ring, which itself is edged indistinctly by fuscous; an additional ocellus is found 
on the inner margin, small, oval, and also with a blue spot. 
Body above yellow-brown, beneath gray on thorax, yellowish on abdomen; 
legs ochraceous, the tibiae gray; palpi clear white, brown above and at tip; 
antennae uniform ferruginous throughout, very imperfectly annulated with white 
next the base; club fuscous at base, yellow at tip. 
Larva unknown. 
The figures given represent one of three males, taken by Mr. Henshaw, of 
Lieutenant Wheeler’s expedition, at Camp Lowell, and in Sonoto Valley, Arizona, 
August, 1874. Nothing is reported of the habits of the butterfly, or of the larva 
and its food-plant. But as Celtis reticulata, Torrey, is mentioned in the Botan¬ 
ical Report upon the plants of Arizona, Washington, 1874, it may be presumed 
that the larvae of Lerfici feed upon its leaves. 
In the shape of the wings, this species is nearer Clyton than Celtis, the hind 
margins of primaries being more excavated, and of secondaries more sinuous, 
and the anal angle more produced than in Celtis. The three examples a.rree in 
shape, color, and markings. 
