Genus Gyrocheilus Butler (the Blackamoors)
Medium-sized butterflies, very dark in color, with eye-spots on fore wings, and hind wings bordered with brown. There is only one species found in our region, and a detailed account of its structure may therefore be spared.
(1) Gyrocheilus tritonia Edwards, Plate LXVII, ♂ (The Arizona Blackamoor).
Upper side shown in our figure. The under side is much the same, except that the submarginal band is purplish red sprinkled with white and dark brown scales, and has on the inner side a row of imperfectly developed eye-spots partially ringed about on the side of the base by yellow. Expanse 2.25-2.50 inches.
Occurs in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.