NYMl'lIALID.i:. — lUPPAKClIIA. ;}5 



in Nortliumbcrland, and Hawthornden, near Edinburgh: — there 

 are several broods in the year, the first the beginiiin;^ of April, the 

 second in June, the last in August. 



S}). 2. Megfcra. Alis J'tdvis, J'usco-fasciaiis ntrinque, ant his scsi/iiiocc//i), /ids- 

 ticis siipru ter, qiiatuur, vel (juinqiie, subtus sed\ (Exp. alar. 1 uiic. 6 — 11 liii.) 

 I'a. JNIoga-ra. Liniic. — Lewiu. pi. 21. — Hi. Megicra. Steph. CuiuL 



Anterior wings above orange-tawny, with the hinder margin and four bands, 

 two of which are abbreviated, brown ; with an ocellus having a white pupil 

 and black iris on both sides towards the tip, generally with one or more 

 minute ones adjoining it, the larger ocellus frequently bipupillatcd : posterior 

 wings duU brown at the base, posteriorly orange-tawny, with a brown band 

 and margin, between which is a series of black ocelli, with white pupils, 

 varying from three to five in number, the lateral ones often blind : bencatli, 

 the anterior wings are rather paler, with four brown bands, the intermediate 

 ones abbreviated, the exterior one frequently very much angulated ; at the 

 hinder margin is a slightly waved band, in which are often darker angular 

 marks : the posterior win;;s are darkest at the base, they are clouded with 

 cinereous, with two angular bars, the hinder of which divides the dark por- 

 tion of the wing, and between it and the hinder margin is a series of six 

 ocelli, the inner one (or sixth) being double, the pupil white, with a black 

 iris, placed in a double gray circle ; behind this is a scolloped, pale, or 

 orange-coloured band; the cilia are white above, interrupted with brown, 



X Sp. 3. Ma?ra. AHs fuscis, utrinque primoribxts sesquiocello, posticis ocellis 

 siipru iribus. — Linne. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 11 lin.) 



Pa. Maera. Linui: — Stewart. — Hi. jMitra. Steph. Catal. 



Wings above brown, the anterior with a fulvous cloud, near the apex, in which 

 is a large ocellus with a white pupil and black iris, accompanied by a simi- 

 larly coloured minute one placeil between it and the tip of the wing : posterior 

 with two or three ocelli parallel with the hinder margin, and each placed in a 

 fulvous spot : beneath, the anterior wings are brown at the base, fulvous on 

 the disc, with a large black ocellus, corresponding with that above, surrounded 

 by an ochraceous ring, and accompanied with a minute ochraceous ocellus, 

 with a darker pupil, towards the tip of the wing ; the hinder margin with 

 three dusky parallel streaks : the posterior wings are brown, prettily streaked 

 with darker zigzags, and having towards the margin a series of six ocelli, of 

 which the first, fourth, and fifth have a white pupil and black iris, surrounded 

 by two flavescent and two brown rings, of which colours the other three are 

 composed ; between these and the margin is an irregular pale waved band. 

 Caterpillar bright green, with a whitish lateral stripe, or darkish dorsal hne, 

 and five whitish hairs. Chrysalis dusky. 



Most probably introduced into the indigenous list by Stewart, in consequence 

 of the Linnean references to IMcrret and AVilkes, by mistake for the pre- 

 ceding; or from Berkenhout having erroneously apphcil the trivial name 

 Micra to the common species. 



