NYMPHALin.E. — HII'PARCHIA. 5$ 



ones at the hinder margin : the posterior wings at the base are internally 

 bluish-gray, then tawny-orange, with several black zigzag lines and clots, a 

 white band, as in the upper surface ; then brownish orange with a double 

 series of black spots, between which and the margin in the middle are some 

 white dots: the cilia, both above and below, are white, interrupted with 

 brown : the abdomen is dusky-black above, white beneath : antennie black 

 above, tawny beneath and at the tip. 

 Caterpillar green, with the head, legs, and tubercles reddish ; it feeds on the 

 various species of honeysuckle : the chrysalis is green spotted with gold, forked 

 in front. 



" The graceful elegance displayed by this charming species, 

 when sailing on the wing, is greater, perhaps, than can be found in 

 any other we have in Britain," says Mr. Haworth, — a fact to wiiich 

 I can bear testimony, having freqnently taken the insect at Coombe- 

 wood in July, previously to the year 1813, since which period I have 

 not seen it alive ; a few, however, were taken near Peterborough hist 

 season, and I believe, also, near Ipswich : during the intermediate 

 time specimens have occurred near Rye, Sussex ; Hartley-wood, 

 Essex; New Forest, Hants; — in Enborne Copse, Berks, by Mr. 

 Dale, and at Billingbear, in the same county, by Mr. Hanson. It 

 was formerly very abundant at Betstile-wood, near Finchley, and 

 at Birch-wood, Kent; but has not been captured at either place 

 for many years. — It delights in settling on bramble blossoms. 



Genus XV. — Hippaiiciiia, Fahric'ius. 



Palpi various, rather longer than the head, more or less hairy, curving down- 

 ward at the tip; three-jointed, the basal joints short, the second very much 

 longer than the basal, compressed, the third mostly acicular, sometimes ob- 

 ovate: antenna moderate or short, with a somewhat fusiform, bent, slender 

 club : eyes pubescent, or naked : wings various ; anterior usually triangidar, 

 posterior somewhat orbiculate-triangular, sometimes scolloped, with a groove 

 to receive the abdomen ; basal areolci closed : anterior legs shortest, generally 

 hairy ; posterior furnished apparently with double claws. — Caterpillar downy, 

 subfusiform, tuberculated, tail bifid : chrysalis subangulated, with the head- 

 case bifid. 



Hipparchia is an extensive genus, and, as at present constituted, 

 contains a most heterogeneous assemblage of objects, no less distin- 

 guished by their dissimilarities, than by the variations to which 

 nearly all the species are subject: — about 80 European species 

 are described, of which 20 are said to inhabit Britain, — but of these 

 three or four are doubtful; they may be discriminated from the 

 other Nymphalidw by the structmc of the club of the antennsp, 



