48 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



with pale olive-brown^ yellowish, and white, intersected with white veins, 

 with four or five ocelli, corresponding with the round spots on the upper 

 surface; the external one being usually spurious and oblong; the second and 

 fifth the largest, with a purple pupil, and yellow iris edged with black ; the 

 two central ones with a blue pupil, edged with yellow and white : beyond 

 these is . a grayish streak, bearing a series of bluish lunules ; the margin is 

 brownish-yellow ; the ciUa of all the wings are white, interrupted by black : 

 body reddish-brown above, whitish beneath ; the abdomen with black rings : 

 the antennjE are black, annulated with white, with an ochraceous tip to the 

 club. 



Var. P. With the anal areolet of the anterior wings above deep fuscous, and 

 an additional white spot in the chaplet. 



Var. y. With the anterior wings similar above ; the posterior with two distinct 

 round spots only (pupillated with blue) in the inner series, the other three 

 being confluent, and forming a transverse abbreviated fascia. 



Var. S. With the anal areolet of the anterior wings above bright fulvous, the 

 transverse black band more regularly defined : the posterior wings fulvous, 

 varied, and shghtly, but irregularly, spotted with black. 



The caterpillar is brownish or gray, with yellow interrupted lateral lines : it 

 feeds solitarily beneath a silken tissue on various kinds of thistles, and also 

 on the nettle, mUlfoil, mallow, and artichoke. The chrysahs is grayish, with 

 golden dots, and whitish brown longitudinal streaks. 



Cy. Cardui is eminently conspicuous for the irregularity of its 

 appearance in particular districts of the country: in the metro- 

 politan district it occurs about every third or fourth year most co- 

 piously, breeding even in the metropolis itself; during the season 

 of 1826 it was very abundant, and a few appeared last spring; and 

 so late as the middle of June I saw several at Ripley in a very 

 damaged condition. Dr. Leach informed me that he used con- 

 stantly to see this insect in Devonshire ; and Mr. Dale that he took 

 it in the Isle of Bute, and on Arthur's Seat near Edinburgh. It 

 usually appears about the beginning of August, and remains 

 throughout the winter in the various states of egg, pupa, and 

 imago. 



t Sp. 2. Hampstediensis. Plate V. f. 3, 4. Alls supra fuscis, str'gd marginali 

 Jlavd, anticis maculis quinque Jlavis, omnibus ocdlis duobus nigris pujnlld albd. 



(Exp. alar. (ex. fig. Petiv.) 2 unc.) 

 PapiUo ocxilatus Hampstediensis ex aureo fuscus. Pet. Pap. ii. pL 5./. 2. b. — 



Cy. Hampstediensis. Steph. Catal. 



Size and form of Hipparchia ^geria : anterior wings above brown, with three 

 spots near the costa, two spots behind, and marginal streak yellow : two large 

 posterior ocelli, the one near the anal angle of the wing appearing on both 

 sides, all with the pupils white with broad black irides : the posterior wings 



