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Var. y. Both sexes with two additional spots placjil as above, the hinder one 



generally pupillated. 

 Yar. L Both sexes with two ocelli on the posterior wings above, and the white 



spots beneath surrounded by a deep black ring. 

 Caterpillar greenish, streaked with white : head brown : feeds on the annual 



meadow grass, and, according to some authors, on the hieraeium pilosellec. 



Clirysalis green. 



Found copiously in meadows and grassy lanes during the month 

 of July, throughout the metropolitan district. It was remarkably 

 plentiful during the past season in some lanes near Ripley, abounding 

 with brambles, on the blossoms of which it reposed, in company 

 with Hi. Janira and Hyperanthus, and Thecla Pruni : it is pro- 

 bably found throughout the country, being common in Yorkshire 

 and Northumberland. 



Sp. 9. Janira. Alisfuscis {fcminis macitVi fuhfi^ nntic'is utrinque uniocellatis, 



posticis suhtiis griscisfasci'i cinere/i. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6 lin. — 2 unc.) 

 Pa. Janira et Jurtina. Linni: — Lewin, />!. 18.— Hi. Janira. S/cph. Catul. 



I^'^ings fuscous, or nearly black : the male with the anterior usually immaculate 

 above, having near the tip on each surface a black ocellus surrounded by 

 fulvous, with a white pupil, sometimes with a yellowish patch beneath the 

 ocellus above ; beneath fulvous, with the hinder margin grayish-brown : 

 posterior wings beneath tawny-brown at the base, terminating in an obsolete 

 angular line; beyond this ashy-brown, with from one to three minute dusky 

 spots. Female generally with a large irregular tawny-orange blotch on the 

 anterior wings above, in which is an ocellus, as in the male ; between the 

 blotch and the base the disc is obscurely tawny; beneath tawny-orange, with 

 a paler band towards the hinder margin, the latter brownish ; the posterior 

 wings above have mostly a tawny patch on the disc, beneath tawny-brown 

 at the base, terminating in a very distinct angular line, beyond which is a 

 pale cinereous band, in which are one or more black eye-like spots ; the 

 hinder margin griseous, or brownish. 



In some specimens of the male there is a deep black patch on the disc of the 

 anterior wings, and the same wings in the female are occasionally nearly im- 

 maculate above ; the ocellus is frequently blind, sometimes bipupillated, and 

 often accompanied by a secondary ocellus above, and a black spot or two be- 

 neath : ihe band on the inferior surface of the posterior wings is frequently 

 immaculate. In some specimens one or more large, irregular, and undefined 

 pure white blotches occur, on various parts of the wings. 



Var. /?. Wings very pale ochraceous tinged with coppery, with a dusky patch 

 at the base ; the markings as usual. 



Caterpillar green, with a white lateral line, thickly clothed with hair : it feeds 

 on meadow grass : the chrysalis is yellowish-green, with dusky streaks on the 

 head and wing-cases. 



