80 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Var. 8. The posterior wings above more or less spotted with blue, towards the 

 coppery band. 



Var. £. The posterior wings above with faint radiating coppery lines, as in the 

 female of Ly. dispar. 



f Var. ?. With the posterior wings above totally of a dusky colour, without the 

 cupreous marginal fascia. 



t Var. 1. With the disc of the wings pure white, the wings spotted and bor- 

 dered as usual. 



Caterpillar green, with a yellow dorsal stripe : it feeds on the sorrel. 



A very abundant insect throughout Britain, frequenting com- 

 mons, pastures, road-sides, and heathy and marshy places : there are 

 three broods in the year; the first appears in April, the second in 

 June, the third in August. Var. ^. was taken about seventeen years 

 since on Wimbledon-common in April ; and var. rj. has been taken 

 at Birch-wood, and near Ipswich; a specimen is in the Rev. W. 

 Kirby's cabinet, and a second, I believe, in that of Mr. J. Hatchett, 

 R L. S. 



Sp. 2. Chryseis. Alls supra igneo-cupreis puncto nigra, viayginibus fusco-jnir- 

 purascentibus, subtiis canescentihus punctis ocellaribus numerosis. (Exp. alar. 

 1 unc. 5—6 lin.) 



He. Chryseis. Fabricius. — Pa, Chryseis. Sowerby, B. M. i. /j/. 13. — Ly. Chryseis. 

 Steph. Catal. 



Wings above bright copper, with the margin and base brown, glossed with 

 brilliant purple : an elongate black dot in the centre of each : the posterior 

 have also nearly half the disc purple : beneath, the anterior wings have the 

 anterior margin cinereous, the disc orange, with about seventeen ocellated 

 dots, with a black pupil and white iris, of which three are placed longi- 

 tudinally towards the base, seven behind the middle, forming a waved band, 

 and seven rather obsolete towards the hinder margin : the posterior wings 

 are cinereous, with the base bluish, and upwards of thirty scattered ocellated 

 dots, of which ten are irregularly diffused over the basal half of the wings, 

 and the rest form three nearly parallel bands on the hinder margin, which has 

 a strong fulvous band, in some specimens a little interrupted : the cilia on 

 both surfaces are brown at the base, white at the tip : the body is black, with 

 grayish hairs : the antennae black, annulated with white. 



f The female has the wings above brown, glossed with fulvous : the anterior 

 with several obscure spots, the posterior with a fulvous band spotted with 

 black ; beneath similar to the male. 



The colour of the under surface varies much : I have one specimen with the 

 anterior wings beneath entirely cinereous tinged with fulvous, and having 

 eight ocellated dots only. 



An insect of great rarity, especially the female, arising, most 

 probably, from its locality being unknown ; notwithstanding it occurs 



