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More abundant and more generally diffused than tlio preceding- 

 species, appearing a1)out the beginning of June, and again towards 

 the middle of August, at Ripley, Oak of Honour Wood, Pcckham, 

 near Dover, Brighton, Hertford, &c. " Near Norwich, Little 

 Blakenham, Bixley Decoy, Race-ground, Ipswich, on the shore 

 near Languard Fort, Suffolk, and Wrabness, Essex." — Miss Jcr- 

 myn. " Seaham Dean, near Sunderland.'" — W. C. Hcicitson, Esq. 

 " Grymes' Dyke and Glanville's Wootton, Dorset, and Old Saruni." 

 J. C. Dak, Esq. " Devil's Ditch, in tolerable plenty ; occurs also 

 near Ely." — Rev. L. Jenijns. 



Sp. 1 i. Artaxerxcs. Alls fu. ids, anticis iitrinqiie macul/i discnidaH nihft, pnsticis 

 lunidts ritfis, siibtih margine alho rujb piincfaio. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. — 1 unc. 

 2lin.) 



He. Artaxerxes. Fahricius.—Ta.. Artaxcrxes. Lewin, pi. 39. f. 8, 9. — Po. 

 Artaxerxcs. Steph. Catal. 



Wings above in both sexes black brown, with a discoidal white spot on tlie an- 

 terior and sometimes on the posterior ; and like the preceding species all the 

 wings have an orange-coloured band, but considerably more obsolete than in 

 the male of that insect : fringe white, brown at the base : beneath the anterior 

 wings have a central white spot, between which and the posterior margin is a 

 curved series of five similar spots, followed by a broad orange-coloured band, 

 terminating interiorly in a series of black and white crescents, and externally 

 in a white spot with a black pupil : this band is continued on the margin of 

 the posterior wings, and has a large white blotch on its interior edge ; between 

 which and the base of the wing are several scattered white spots, placed like 

 the ocelli in Po. Agestis. 



Var. /;. The white spots on the under surface of all the wings with minute 

 black pupils. 



As in its congeners this insect varies much in the number and disposition of the 

 white spots on the inferior surface of the wings, as well as in the width antl 

 obliteration of the orange marginal fascia. 



t Sp. 15. Titus. "Alls fuscis immacuhitis, jiosticis subtus ocdlatis strigdquc 

 jmsticfi macular if 111 v^i." — Fabricius. 



He. Titus. Fabricius (!)— Po. Titus. Steph. Catal. 



All the wings above brown, without spots ; beneath also brown ; the anterior 

 with a hinder band consisting of white and black lines ; posterior with a dis- 

 coidal narrow spot, and a band consisting of })lack spots cinctured with white : 

 towards the margin there are red spots marked with a black dot. 



Inhabits England ; Mr. Drury. The above tlescription and locality are from 

 Fabricius; but I know of no indigenous insect which will agree with the 

 former, which it is possible may have been drawn from some most extraor- 

 dinary variety of one of the preceding species. 



