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white; the costa is marked with small black and white streaks: posterior 

 wings beneath clouded with white, brown, and black, the base darkest: to- 

 wards the anal angle is a minute ocellus, with a white pupil and black iris : 

 the ciha are brownish, interrupted with dusky : the body is brown above, 

 grayish beneath : the antenme brown above, with the under part ochraceous. 

 The female is generally paler than the male, and has larger oceUi, 

 The intensity of its colouring varies greatly: in some specimens the upper surface 

 is nearly black ; in others the marginal band is flavescent, with a few brownish 

 clouds: beneath, the anterior wings are frequently very deep brown at the 

 base, with a dusky bar across the centre, and the hinder margin of the same 

 colour : and the posterior wings are occasionally marked with a zigzag, irre- 

 gular central ochraceous band. The ocelli, in all the wings, both above and 

 below, also vary much in size. Caterpillar green : chrysalis dusky. 



A common, but rather local species, frequenting heaths and woody 

 places in July. The Rev\ L. Jenyns informs me that it is extremely 

 abundant on Newmarket and Gamlingay heaths, Cambridgesliire ; 

 and Mr.^Wailes, that it frequents the sea-coast, where the mag- 

 nesian-limestone occurs, at Marsden, near South Shields, while on 

 the rocky shore of the opposite banks of the Tyne (where there is 

 no limestone), it is not found. Mr. Ingpen took it in plenty on 

 Salisbury Plain, and Mr. Backhouse finds it on the sea-coast, near 

 Scarborough. 



C Antenna; elongate; club slender, fusiform; palpi, when denuded, with attC' 

 nuated Joints. 



Sp. 7. Galathea. Alls Jlavicantibus nigra maculat is ; suhtus anticis ocello unico, 

 posticis quinque scsquialtcro. (Exp. alar. 2 unc. — 2 unc. 3 lin.) 



Pa. Galathea. Liuuc.—Lcwin, pi. 28.— Hi. Galathea. Stcph. Catal. 



Wings yellowish spotted with black ; anterior with a series of yellowish dots 

 parallel with the hinder margin above, and the under surface nearly similar, 

 but paler, with a small ocellus near the tip : the posterior wings above have 

 also a series of marginal dots or lunules, with an irregular broad patch of 

 yellowish through the centre, and a large spot of the same colour at the base: 

 towards the hinder margin are some obsolete ocelli ; beneath, the base and 

 an irregular angular band are dusky, thickly irrorated with yellowish, and 

 edged with black : on the anterior margin are two ocelli, and towards the in- 

 terior edge are three others, the inner of which is double : the body is black, 

 yellowish beneath : the antenna? black, annulatcd with white, the tip reddish 

 beneath. The female has the lower surface of the posterior wings of a deeper 

 yellow than the male. 



Var. B. The maculations of the wings resembling the above in form, but the 

 ground colour of a yellowish buff, with pale yellowish brown markings in 

 lieu of black. 



Caterpillar bright green, with obscure dorsal and lateral lines: head brownish. 

 It feeds on the cat's-tail grass. Chrysalis yellowish. 

 Haustkllata. Vol. I. 1st January, 1S28. i 



