90 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



and somewhat larger, and the ground-colour deeper. Female deep brown, 

 with a black discoidal spot, the disc frequently bluish ; the hinder margin of 

 the posterior wings with a slightly ocellated fulvous streak, and sometimes a 

 dash of a similar colour towards the anal angle of the anterior wings; in 

 other respects similar to the male, but the colour beneath much darker, and 

 the ocelli more distinct ; the hinder margin of the posterior wings grayish. 



Var. /3. With the oceUi beneath more or less confluent. 



Var. y. With the fulvous band on the hinder rnargin of all the wings obUte- 

 rated. 



Var. S, With the humeral spots of the anterior wings beneath obUterated. 



Var. £. With all the ocellated dots beneath very small, and several of them 

 deficient. 



Var. ?. With the central discoidal spot alone remaining, the marginal fascia 

 merely indicated by a few indistinct dusky luimles. 



The varieties in ocellation (as in the other species) are endless : some have the 

 ocelli nearly round, others more or less elongate: some very large, others 

 extremely small : the white blotch on the posterior wings beneath also varies 

 much in size and form. 



Caterpillar green, with dorsal rows of fulvous spots : it feeds on clover. The 

 chrysalis is green or brown. 



This truly beautiful and splendid insect is, like the preceding, 

 extremely local, but more generally distributed ; and there are two 

 broods annually, the first towards the end of May, the other about 

 the middle of August. I have taken it in every place where I have 

 met with that species, at Dover, Newport, the Sussex downs, and near 

 Darenth : at Coombe-wood, Dover, it is in greater profusion than 

 any other of the genus ; it is also very plentiful on all the downs 

 between Hastings and Brighton. " Moulton and Dalham, Sufiolk." 

 — Miss Jermyn. " Amesbury-hill." — Rev. G. T. Ricdd. " Puddle- 

 Hinton-downs, Hodd-hill, and Knowle-hill, Dorset." — J. C. Dale, 

 Esq. " Near Birmingham.'" — Mr. Weaver. 



Sp. 8. Dorylas ? Alis cyaneis aut ftiscis, subtiis cinereis, macula media stf-igu 

 punctorum ocellatorwm posticd margineque albicante. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 lin.) 

 Pa. Dorylas. Wien, Verz. teste Ochsenheimer. — Po. Dorylas? Steph. Catal. 



The indigenous specimens which are presumed to be synonymous with the above 

 insect, and which, according to Ochsenheimer, have been figured by Lewin, 

 in his plate 38, f. 1 and 3, I do not think sufficiently distinct from my var. y 

 of Po. Adonis ; nevertheless, as I am not positive of their identity, I shall for 

 the present consider them as distinct. The male is of a bright blue above, 

 and has a slender black marginal line as in Po. Adonis, but the cilia are 

 immaculate : beneath, the anterior wings are pale cinereous, and have a 

 central transverse black streak on the disc, followed by a waved row of black 

 dots faintly cinctured with whitish ; there is then a delicate interrupted band 



