44 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



the base, wit a minute whitish discoidal spot, and a pale band marbled with 

 brown, in which, towards the margin, is a series of angular black spots : the 

 body is dusky, with a greenish pubescence : the antennae are annulated with 

 black and white, with the tip of the club ochraceous. 



Var. (i. With the two round discoidal black spots on the anterior wings obhterated. 



The caterpillar is dusky, with two greenish-yeUow hues on the back, and one 

 on each side: it feeds when young in society, but generally disperses after 

 the first change. The chrysaUs is grayish, with golden spots on the neck, 

 sometimes entirely golden. 



This elegant and very common species occurs throughout the 

 kingdom in gardens, lanes, &c. and is produced twice in the season, 

 about the end of June and beginning of September. 



Sp. 4. lo. Alls svpra britnneo-rubris, singulis ocello cwruleo, anticis maculis 

 duabus costaliLus nigris, omnibus subtiis atro-nebulosis. (Exp. alar. 2 unc. 

 6 lin. — 3 unc.) 



Pa. lo. Liiine. — Leivin, pi. 4. — Va. lo. Steph. Catal. 



Wings above red-brown, or purplish, with the base and liinder margin dusky- 

 ash : costal areolet black, with transverse pale-yeUow streaks : anterior margin 

 with two large triangular black spots, with a yellow one between, and a large 

 ocelliform spot adjoining the posterior edge of the one towards the apex of 

 the wing ; this ocellus is anteriorly yellow, posteriorly blue, streaked with 

 three bluish-white dots, and has for a pupil a large reddish-brown spot, 

 darker anteriorly: there are also two other bluish-white spots, forming a 

 continuous series parallel with the hinder margin, with the three which are 

 placed in the ocellus : the posterior wings have towards the margin a large 

 ocelliform spot, with a large black pupil spotted with blue, and a gray iris, 

 terminated interiorly with a black crescent : beneath aU the wings are glossy 

 brown, marbled, banded, and spotted with black ; the anterior with five minute 

 white dots, corresponding with those on the upper surface, and the posterior 

 with a single discoidal spot : the body is dusky, with rusty down : the an- 

 tennae black above, brown beneath, with the tip yellowish: the legs are 

 ochraceous. 



The caterpillar is glossy black, spotted with white, with the hinder legs ferru- 

 ginous : it feeds on the Urtica urens and dioica. The chrysalis is green dotted 

 with gold : the butterfly appears in about a fortnight. 



Va. lo is a very abundant and highly beautiful species, occurring 

 in plenty in lanes, commons, woods, and fields, where nettles and 

 thistles abound, throughout the southern portion of the kingdom 

 about the end of July, and continuing till the following spring. 

 Haworth states in his useful Lepidoptera Britannica, that only two 

 instances of its capture had occurred in Yorkshire. I am, however, 

 informed by Mr. Giles that it is plentiful in the New Walk, York ; 

 and by Mr. Backhouse that it is very abundant in the vicinity of 

 that city. 



