NYMPHALID^. HIPPARCHIA. 0)5 



Above, usuaUy deep immaculate rusty-tawny, the anterior wings slightly tinged 

 with brownish on the hinder margin, and clouded at the base with dusky; 

 the posterior wings are of a deeper hue, especially towards the base, which is 

 clouded with dusky ; aU the wings have a whitish edge : beneath, the anterior 

 wings are dusky at the base, the disc is dull ferruginous-tawny, with an ab- 

 bre^ated irregular white stripe towards, and parallel with, the hinder margin, 

 which is usually bordered on the inner edge with dusky, or black ; between 

 this stripe and the margin are generally two black ocelli, with white pupils, 

 surrounded by a whitish circle; the tip of the wings and a narrow slip along 

 the hinder margin is greenish ash-colour : the posterior wings have more than 

 the basal half deep greenish-brown, followed by an interrupted, irregular, 

 sinuated white band, on the anterior margin of which is a single ocellus, 

 coloured as before; this band is foUowed posteriorly in the female with a 

 fulvous cloud, but in the male with a patch uniform with the base of the 

 wing, in which are usually five whitish circles, in the third and fourth of 

 which is a black oceUus with a white pupil, in the second a black dot, and 

 in the fifth or anal one a rather obsolete ocellus, which is frequently double: 

 the edge of the wing is ash-coloured : the cilia of all the wings above are 

 whitish-brown, beneath whitish-ash: the body above dusky, tinged with 

 greenish-ash; beneath, of the latter colour: the antenna; are dusky, annu- 

 lated with white, the tip of the club tawny. 

 Var. IS. With the white band on the under surface of the posterior wings 



scarcely interrupted : the ocellation various. 

 Var. V. Anterior wings beneath with four ocelli, the posterior with five. 

 Var. S. Anterior wings beneath with three oceUi, the posterior with foiu-. 

 Var. f. Anterior wings as above, the posterior with three ocelli. 

 Var. f. Anterior wings with two oceUi, the posterior as in var. y. 

 Var. r,. Anterior wings as in the last, posterior as in var. 8. 

 Var. 9. Anterior wings with two oceUi, posterior with one oceUus. 

 Var. .. Anterior wings with one ocellus, posterior with one or more ocelli. 

 Var. X. All the wings inoceUated. 



The varieties of this species are almost interminable; the above are aU I con- 

 sider worthy of a distinct notice : specimens sometimes occur with a greater 

 number of ocelli in both wings: I have some with five on the anterior wings 

 and seven on the posterior : the obliteration of the ocelli also varies much ; in 

 some individuals they are replaced by pale fulvescent or whitish spots, and 

 in others they are totally obsolete. Again, many specimens have the upper 

 surface bearing very distinct ocelli, which vary in number. The females 

 have, in addition to the tawny cloud in the under surface of the posterior 

 wings, the wings usually much paler than in the male, with a paler blotch on 

 the upper surface of the anterior behind the middle of the disc anteriorly, and 

 a similar patch on the posterior above; the oceUi are also generaUy more 

 distinct than in the male. 

 The caterpiUar is dark green, with a bluish head, and a slender dark dorsal 

 stripe : the chrysalis is dark green. 



The first notice of this insect as indigenous is given in Lepi- 

 Haustellata. Vol. I. 1st February, 1828. k 



