82 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



This splendid insect appears to be confined to the fenny counties 

 of Cambridge and Huntingdon, with the neighbouring ones of 

 Suffolk and Norfolk, unless the account of its capture in Wales 

 by Hudson be arlmitted ; but this may probably be the following 

 species, which may, moreover, eventually prove synonymous with 

 Ly. dispar. In the two first localities it appears to occur in great 

 profusion, as several hundred specimens have been captured within 

 these last ten years by the London collectors, who have visited 

 Whittlesea and Yaxley Meres during the month of July, for the 

 sole purpose of obtaining specimens of this insect, which is also 

 stated to occur on the coast of Suffolk, at Benacre; but that locality 

 may, however, belong to the next insect. 



Sp. 4. Hippothoe. Alis svprt} fi/Iris siibt'ls cinerascentihiis, puncfix ocellarihus 



numerosis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5—6 lin.) 

 Pa. Hippothoe. Linnc f — Ly. Hippothoe. Steph. Catal. 



Size of Ly. Virgaureje : wings above entirely immaculate fulvous ; beneath, 

 luteous ash-colour : the anterior beneath with black spots, with a white iris, 

 of which the three largest are placed near the outer (or costal) margin, seven 

 lesser nearly transversely, and six very minute towards the hinder margin : 

 the posterior are ash-coloured beneath, with about seventeen ocellated spots, 

 and a fulvous band on the hinder margin, anteriorly spotted with black. 

 The female differs from that of Ly. dispar, in having the spots on the upper 

 surface of the anterior wings smaller, and in having the entire disc of the 

 posterior wings above dusky, clouded with deeper spots, and without the 

 fulvous nervures; the under surface resembles that of the male, and, Uke it, 

 has fewer and smaller spots than Ly. dispar. 



The inferior size of the above insect (which corresponds with 

 the magnitude stated by Linnseus) as well as the differences in the 

 number and size of the ocellated spots on the lower surface of the 

 wings, and the colour of the upper surface of the inferior ones of 

 the female, combined with the circumstance, that, amongst several 

 hundreds of Ly. dispar which have been taken at Whittlesea Mere, 

 not one specimen occurred agreeing with the above definition, seem 

 to point out the present insect as a different species. 



The male which I possess was in the late Mr. Beckwith's col- 

 lection, and the female is in that of Mr. Haworth, who informs me 

 that he obtained it many years since from an old cabinet that was 

 formed by a gentleman residing in Kent, and which contained 

 scarcely any insect that was not the production of that county, 

 thence called " the Kentish Cabinet," Mdiich renders it probable, 



