62 H AUSTELLATA. LEI'I DOrXERA. 



white interrupted by brown. There are several other manifest 

 characters which may easily be recognised by comparing the de- 

 scription of Hi. Blandina with the accompanying plate, which has 

 been executed from a fine pair of the insect in my collection. 



Linnseus has erroneously referred to Albins' plate 5. f. 1. for a 

 figure of this insect, an error which Fabricius, in his attempts to 

 amend, has materially increased by striking it out from the Linnean 

 species, and inserting it as a synonym to his Pa. Medusa ; whereas 

 the figure in question correctly represents Thecla Betulse. 



Sp. 12. Blandina. AHs fuscis, fascid posticd rufd, punctis ocellarilus nigris, 



posticis subtiis fascid cinered. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 10 lin. — 2 unc.) 

 Pa. Blandina. Fabricius. — Don, xii. jd. 426. — Hi. Blandina. Steph. Catal. 



Wings above brown, with a rufous band towards the hinder margin, in which 

 on the anterior are four black ocelli with white pupils, the two anterior united 

 as in Hi. Ligea : the band on the posterior wings is somewhat obsolete, in- 

 terrupted at each nervure, abbreviated, and bearing usually three black ocelli 

 with white pupils, and a black dot : beneath, the anterior wings are rather 

 paler, but banded and ocellated as above ; the posterior wings have rather 

 more than the basal half deep fuscous, obsoletely terminating in a sinuated 

 line, and followed by a bluish-ash fascia, posteriorly tinted with red, in which 

 are one or more minute oceUi : cilia brownish, interrupted with dusky. The 

 female differs in having the ocelli more distinct both above and below, the 

 under surface of the wings much paler, especially the posterior, which are 

 pale cinereous at the base and hinder margin, with a broad intermediate 

 brown band ; the ciha are also more distinctly interrupted, being whitish, 

 with brown spots. The body and antennae as in Hi. Ligea. 



Var. &. Both sexes with the third ocellus from the apex of the anterior wings 

 blind ; posterior wings as above. 



Var. y. Both sexes with the third ocellus obliterated. 



Var. 8. Female with five ocelli on the band of the anterior wings. 



Var. e. As in var. /3, but the posterior wings with two ocelli only above. 



Var. X. As in var. y, but two ocelli only on the posterior wings. 



Var. r,. Ocelli as in var. y, but very small ; the posterior wings beneath with 

 four very distinct bands ; the first, at the base, pale dusky, the second broad, 

 bent, deep reddish-brown ; the next attenuated at each end, bluish-ash, 

 sprinkled with white, with three minute ocelli, and terminating at the anal 

 angle of the wing ; the hinder one occupying the posterior margin, and bright 

 rufous brown. 



Discovered many years since, at the beginning of August, in 

 the Isle of Arran, by Dr. Walker, and, subsequently, taken there 

 by Sir Patrick Walker and Dr. Leach, and in profusion by Messrs. 

 Curtis and Dale, the latter of whom supplied me with a fine series 

 of both sexes. It has recently been found not uncommonly near 



