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beneath gray with dusky spots : the body is dusky above, paler beneath : the 

 antennae are brown, annulated with white ; club rather abrupt. The male has 

 a broad transverse oblique brown fascia across the centre of the anterior wings. 



Var. P. With the wings nearly transparent, the scales being sparingly distri- 

 buted over the surface, but all the usual markings visible. 



Caterpillar slender, light green, with dark stripes on the back and sides. Chry- 

 salis dusky. 

 Abundant everywhere in woods, lanes, and way-sides, in April, 



July, and August. 



B. Eyes naked : wings, especially the posterior, more or less dentated : palpi 

 moderately hairy : — frequent heaths, commons, and meadows. 

 a. Antennw with a short, abrupt club. 



Sp. 4. Semele. Alls fulvo nigroque ncbulosis, anticis ocellis utrinque duohus, 

 posticis snprd tinico. (Exp. alar. 2 unc. 3—7 lin.) 



Pa. Semele. Linne. — Lewin, pi. 17. — Hi. Semele. Steph. Catal. 



Anterior wings above dull brown, with a posterior fulvescent, interrupted, irre- 

 gular band, in which are two ocelli, having a small white pupil and broad 

 black iris : the posterior wings are anteriorly brown above, with a broad trans- 

 verse paler clouded band, in which is a small ocellus, with a minute white 

 pupil and black iris, and surrounded with dull fulvous ; posterior margin 

 dusky : beneath, the anterior wings have the basal half tawny, the apical 

 flavescent, with two ocelli; the posterior margin clouded with brown and 



b. Antennas moderate; club slender, fusiform. 

 X Sp. 5. Phaedra. Alls fuscis concoloribus, primoribus ocellis duobus. — Linne. 



(Exp. alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.) 

 Pa. Phaedra. Linne. — Turton. — Hi. Phsedra. Steph. Catal. 

 Wings above deep uniform brown : the anterior with two large ocelli on each 

 surface, parallel with the hinder margin, composed of a large bluish- white 

 pupil and black iris ; posterior with a minute ocellus near the anal angle on 

 the upper surface, and a corresponding spot on the lower : the wings beneath 

 are rather paler, the anterior with a pale circle round the ocelli, and the pos- 

 terior with a whitish irregular band across the centre, and an obsolete striga 

 of dusky clouds between it and the hinder margin. Caterpillar ash-coloured, 

 with two rows of elongate black spots on the back. 

 Indicated as British by Turton, but I believe without sufficient authority, 

 f Sp. 6. Alcyone. Alis fuscis fascid albida, anticis utrinque ocellis duobus, pos- 

 ticis infra vnico. 

 Pa. Alcyone. Esper —.Stewart.— Hi. Alcyone. Steph. Catal. 

 Wings brown, with a whitish band, the anterior with two ocelli on both sides ; 

 the posterior underneath marbled with brown and black, and having a white 

 angular band, and a single ocellus. 

 Stewart, in the second edition of his Elements of Natural History, gives this 

 insect as an inhabitant of Scotland, having erroneously referred a female of 

 Hi. Blandina to Pa. Alcyone of Esper. 



