TWO NEW SATYRIDS FROM NORTH AMERICA

Extract

Male Length of primaries (measured from the base of the wing to the apex) 25-26 mm. Genitalia identical with those of Minois meadi meadi. Uppe: surface: the primaries as in typical meadi, with two small dark ocelli ringed with light reddish-yellow; the pupils reduced in the anterior ocelli and lacking in the posterior; the area btween the occclli may be suffused with reddish-yellow. Secondaries as in typical meadi, with a well developed submarginal ocellus between veins Cu₁ and Cu₂, which may or may not be pupilled with while. Lower surface: primaries similar to M. m. meadi. Secondaries with a well developed submarginal ocelllis between Cu₁, and Cu₂; additional ocelli may also be present between M₁ and ₂, and Cu₁ and 2A. The ground color is homogeneous dull brown, with darker striae which are more sparsely distributed than in typical meadi, and tend to disappear in the limbal area. The dark transverse bands of meadi have almost completclv disappeared.