2. Chryseis Fab. — Sow. Brit. Mis. tab. 13. — Wood,/. 57 S ■ 



Male 18 lines: shining coppery scarlet with a purplish lustre; superior 

 wings with the costa and posterior margin dark brown, with a black spot 

 at the apex of the discoidal cell ; inferior wings with the margin and abdo- 

 minal portion deep brown with an obscure blackish line on the disc; cilia 

 white : underside cinereous-ochre with man}' pale spots having black pu- 

 pils and a few scarlet ones at the anal angle. Female 20 lines : deep brown 

 with a scarlet tinge, especially on the disc of the superior wings, with a 

 pale scarlet band bordered by some blackish indistinct spots towards the 

 inferior angle of the posterior margin, a curved line of the same nearer the 

 disc on which is a large and small spot ; inferior wings with an abbreviated 

 scarlet fimbria with 3 or 4 black spots externally and a row of the same 

 internally, the latter edged with blue ; underside like the male, but the su- 

 perior wings are more orange. 



My pair of this rare insect were taken in Ashdown Forest, Sus- 

 sex, and Mr. Haworth's, I believe, came from St. Leonard's Forest. 

 A male was reported to have been captured in July, and it was 

 abundant in August and September in 1818, at Woodside near Ep- 

 ping. It is supposed to frequent pools of water; but in France it 

 is found in woods in June and August. 



3. Hippothoe Linn. }—Goda. v. 1. pi. 29. f. 5. & 32. ^.— Wood,f. 58 a" ? . 



Male 15 lines : shining copper}^ scarlet ; edge of the costa, the posterior 

 margin and a spot at the apex of the discoidal cell in the superior wings 

 black ; inferior with the posterior and abdominal margins and a very nar- 

 row line on the disc black, the former being united on the inside to 5 spots 

 of the same colour : underside; superior wings orange, 3 black spots ocel- 

 lated with white, placed longitudinally between the base and middle, a 

 curved transverse line of similar spots towards the posterior margin, 

 which has a cinereous fimbria with 5 or 6 blackish spots on the inner 

 margin : inferior wings cinereous, the base and abdominal margin bluish- 

 gray, 15 black ocellated spots placed in transverse lines, 2 at the base, 

 3 before the centre, on which is a narrow elongated one, and 9 beyond 

 irregularly placed in pairs ; an abbreviated orange fimbria with 7 black 

 spots on each margin. 



Such is the description of a male, one of three that Mr. Wilkin 

 bought of Latham, who would only say that they came from Capt. 

 Lindigren : they were set in the German style, and two of them 

 were placed in the Beckwithian Cabinet, one of which has been de- 

 scribed in the " Illustrations" as British. I suspect that, like Culias 

 Europome, it may be a North American species ; for it does not 

 quite agree with my foreign specimens of L. Hippothoe; and the 

 female in Mr. Haworth's Collection might have been placed in the 

 Kentish Cabinet as a representative of L. dispar, " in accordance 

 with the bad taste of those times." 



4. dispar Haw. — Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 12^ ? . — Hippothoe Esp., Lewin, & Don. 

 7. 217. 



Male 20 lines : antennae black annulated with white, tips fulvous ; head 

 and palpi milk-white, the former with an oblong black spot on the face, 

 the crown also black with 2 white spots at the base of the antenna;, the 

 latter with the apex of the 2nd and the whole of the 3rd joints black 

 above : wings intense coppery scarlet, slightly glossy ; superior, with the 



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