SATYRUS II., III. 
number varies from nil to six, but much the larger proportion of examples have 
six, and very few have under three. (III., Figs. 1, 2.) 
Female. — Expands from 2 to 2.5 inches. 
Upper side lighter, more brown than the male, and the area which in Alope 
is occupied by the band, is of a slightly paler shade than the rest of the wing ; 
the ocelli large, with white centres and blue scales, and either without rings or 
imperfectly ringed with dusky yellow, the hind wing either with or without an 
ocellus. Under side paler, the area of the band a little lighter than elsewhere ; 
the rings sometimes quite bright, but oftener dull or obscure yellow ; the ocelli 
of secondaries rarely six in number, most often under three, and many examples 
have none at all. (III., Figs. 3, 4.) 
Var. Olympus. 
In size equals the typical form. The males are almost black ; the ocelli very 
small and without rings, but in some examples there is a faint russet or yellowish 
tint about them, and perhaps on the space between. On the under side the rings 
are russet or ochraceous on both wings. This form inhabits Indiana and west¬ 
ward to the Rocky Mountains. (III., Figs. 5, 6.) 
Egg. — Conoidal, rounded at base and somewhat flattened, truncated, the 
sides slightly convex; marked by about eighteen prominent vertical ridges which 
spring from the lower part of side; the spaces between crossed by numerous fine 
low ridges; summit rounded, and covered with shallow cells, in three to four 
rows, not concentric, but irregularly spiral around a central star made up of six 
rhomboids; color lemon-yellow. (Figs, a, a 1 .) Duration of this stage fourteen 
to twenty-eight days, according to the temperature. 
Y^ouxg Larva. — Length .1 inch; the anterior segments thickest; the poste¬ 
rior extremity nearly square or sub-arcuate, with a projecting point at either 
side; on each side of the body are three rows of long white bristles, one sub¬ 
dorsal, one on middle, and one over the feet, besides a demi-row on 2, 3, and 4, 
between the two upper rows ; these spring from prominent papillae, and the 
effect is to make the body seem many-sided ; the dorsal rows have one bristle on 
each of segments 2, 3, and 4, and these are bent forward, but two on each of 
the others, all bent back; the demi-row and the side row have one to each seg¬ 
ment, all bent forward ; the lower row has two to each, and all are turned back; 
color carnation, with a medio-dorsal crimson line, and three similar lines on each 
side ; legs and pro-legs pinkish; head large, one half broader than 2, broader 
than high, sub-globose, narrowing upwards, the top a little depressed; color light 
