2i:pii\rus. 67 



Jli/'parckia hyperant/ms, which often fly in tiie same localities, 

 and which are still plentiful when it appea s. 



II. THE rURPLE IIAIR-STREAK. ZEPIIYRUS QUERCUS. 

 [JVafr XLIV. Fig. 4c^,5?, 6 uudcr-side.) 

 Papilio quercus, Linnceus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 482, no. 



148 (1758); id. Faun. Sjcc. p. 283 (1761); id. Mus. 



Lud. Ulr. p. 314(1764); Esper, Schmett. i. (i) p. 262, pi. 



19, fig. 2 (1777); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 368-370 



(1803^). 

 Polyominafus quercus^ Godart, Enc. Mith. ix. p. 651, no. 117 



^ (1823). 

 Thecla betuhe, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 76 (1828) ; 



Lang. Butterflies Eur. p. 81, pi. 18, fig. 2 (1881); 



Buckler, Larvce of Brit. Butterflies and Moths, i. p. 185, 



pi. 13, fig. 2 (1886); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. i. p. 51, 



pi. 8, figs. 3, 3^-^(1892). 

 Zephyrus quernis, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 58, 



pi. 15, fig. 6 (1879). 



The Purple Hair-streak is rather smaller than the last 

 species, rarely expanding more than an inch and a half across 

 the wings. 



The male is purplish-blue above, with a narrow black 

 border. The female is brown, with a rich purple blotch 

 reaching half across the front part of the fore-wings, and 

 beneath nearly to the hinder angle. On the under side the 

 wings are of a light silky grey, traversed by a continuous 

 undulating white streak, edged with brown anteriorly; be- 

 yond this there is a double row of faint whitish crescents, with 

 a few dusky dots on the fore-wings, and the hind-wings are 

 ornamented with two fulvous spots, one at the anal angle, ard 

 the other forming an ocellus with a yellow iris and a black 

 pupil. The Butterfly appears in July and August. 



