NYMPHAT.lD.i:. — APATUItA. H) 



also brown, darkest at the base, with a marginal yellow streak, and two large 

 posterior ocelli with white pupils and black irides : beneath, the anterior wings 

 are yellowish, clouded with dark brown, with an obsolete streak on the hinder 

 margin composed of brown lunules: posterior wings yellowish, somewhat 

 clouded with brown at the base, with a small nearly obliterated black ocellus, 

 with a white pupil ; at the anal angle four minute dark brown spots, between 

 which and the hinder margin is a streak composed of dark brown crescents 

 turned forwards. 



There is something wonderful in the total disappearance of so 

 large an insect as the above, which has been seen but once, and 

 that iip\A'ards of a century ago : entomologists are indebted to the 

 persevering industry of Petiver for a coloured figure, of whicii I 

 have introduced a copy, in his rough, though evidently correct, 

 style, in order to excite the attention of those of the present day 

 to the fact of its existence or not at this period. Petiver thus notices 

 it: — " Albin's Hampstead Eye, where it was caught by this curious 

 person, and is the only one I have yet seen." 



Genus XIII. — Apatura, Fahricius. 



Palpi longer than the head, contiguous, compressed, the points closely approxi- 

 mating and acute, forming a conical beak, chiefly clothed with hair, three- 

 jointed, the basal joint short, rather stout, bent, the second slender, very 

 long, slightly angidated interiorly, and a little bent at the base, terminal 

 about as long as the basal, subcylindrical, obtuse: antenna: rather long, with 

 an elongate, obconic, thickened club, terminating in a lateral point : ci/es 

 naked : wings nearly as in Cynthia, with the basal areolet of the posterior 

 open behind: anterior legs very short in both sexes, the rest furnished with 

 bifid claws. Caterpillar fusiform, spiny, with two horns on the head. 

 Chrysalis rather angular, compressed, gibbous, head-case beaked. 



X Sp. 3. Levana. Alis swprd fulvis, nigrojlavoque maculatis, tiibtiis reticulatis, 

 anticis supra maculis aliquot albis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6 lin.) 



Pa, Levana. Linnc. — THWo/j.—Cy.'' Levana. Steph. Catal. 



Wings above tawny, spotted with black and yellow ; the anterior with two or 

 three white spots : beneath all the wings are prettily reticulated with whitish 

 yellow, and variegated with fulvous, l)rown, and yellowish, with a violaceous 

 patch towards the centre of the hinder margin, in which are a few white 

 spots. Caterpillar deep black, with red legs: head bitubcrculated ; neck 

 with two long spines: it lives in small societies of ten or twelve on nettles. 

 Chrysalis dusky, with the breast pale yellow. 



This insect is indicated as British by Turton, and in Rccs' Cyclopedia (article 

 Tapilio) it is considered as a native of Britain : but no Indigenous specimen 

 exists. 

 Halstellata. Vol. I. 1st Di-.cember, 1827. h 



