94 HAUSTELLATA. LF.PIDOPTERA. 



Var. B. Smaller, the wings narrower, blue above with a broad black margin to 

 all the wings ; the under side of the male of a deep grayish or drab colour ; 

 the ocelli very distinct as in the female, and the obhque series on the posterior 

 wing consisting of four. 



t Var. y. With the ocelli united into longitudinal streaks. In Mr. Haworth's 

 cabinet. 



t Var. S. The upper surface of all the wings of a pale fulvous tawny ; the 

 exact colour of that of Hipparchia Pamphilus. In Mr. Hatchett's collection. 



Caterpillar green, hairy, with whitish tubercles, with a reddish brown dorsal 

 Une, edged with white, another on the sides, and some obUque stripes of the 

 same; head and true legs brown : it feeds on common broom f Spartium sco- 

 pariumj, common melilot ( TrifoUinn melilotus), and saint-foin ( Hedy- 

 sarum OnobrychisJ. Chrysalis at first green, afterwards brown. 



Also a local species, but occurring in tolerable plenty on Ripley- 

 green, and about the Sheep Leas in Surry, about the middle of 

 July ; it also occurs near Coombe and Darenth woods ; its usual 

 haunts are commons, fields, and marshy places ; it does not appear to 

 be partial to chalky districts. " Woodhay-common, Hants, near New- 

 berry, Hordwell-cliff, Hants ; Collhill, near Wimborne, and Parley- 

 heath, Dorset; Whitewood, near Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire." — 

 J. C. Dale, Esq. " Near York, in the autumn of 1827."— G. Wailes, 

 Esq. " Bixley Decoy, Nacton, Suffolk." — Miss Jermyn, Var. y. 

 " Salt Marsh, near Holt, Norfolk."— J. H. Haworlh, Esq. Var. a. 

 " Coombe wood." — Mr. Hatchett. 



Sp. 13. Agestis. Alis fuscis, fascid utrinque viacuhiri rufd, suhtus canescentihiis, 

 jmnctis ocellaribus nu7nerosis, alis anticis supra pimcto discoidali nigra. (Exp. 

 alar. 1 unc. 1 — 3 Un.) 



Pa. Agestis. Wien. Verz., teste Ochsenheimer. — Po. Agestis. Steph. Catal. — 

 Pa. Idas. Lewin, pi. 39./ 1, 2. 



Wings above in both sexes of a beautiful silken brown, with a black spot in the 

 centre of the anterior, and with an orange macular band at the posterior 

 margin of all the wings : costa of the anterior wings white ; fringe white, 

 varied with brown ; beneath brownish ash-colour : anterior wings nearly as in 

 Po. Argus, but the ocelli fewer, and the marginal fulvous band very broad 

 and brilliant in colour : posterior wings with the ocelli nearly as in the last- 

 named insect ; but in heu of the dentated white band between the undulated 

 series of ocelli and the fulvous band, a white discoidal blotch, as in Po. Adonis 

 and Alexis : fringe white, varied with brown. Female differs in being rather 

 lighter coloured above, with the hinder macular band very broad, and reaching 

 to the costa of the anterior v^^ings, and spotted with black on the posterior. 



The number of ocelli, on the wings beneath, varies exceedingly ; as does also 

 the breadth and splendour of the marginal fulvous band ; the latter being 

 nearly obliterated in some specimens. 



