2o8 Lloyd's natural history. 



THE SPECKLED WOOD BUTTERFLY, OR WOOD ARGUS. PARARGE 

 EGERIDES. 



{Plate XXXI., Fig. 3.) 



a. Northern Form. (P. egerides.) 



Papilio czgeria (nee L.), Esper, Schmett., i., p. 105, pi. 7, fig. 1 



(1777). 

 Hipparchia cegeria (nee L.), Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust, 



i.,p. 54 (1827). 

 Pararge cegeria, v. egerides, Staud., Cat. Lepid. Eur., p. 30, no. 



372a (1S71). 

 Satyrus cegeria, var. egerides, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, 



p. 39, pi. 12, fig. 10 (1S78). 

 Pararge egeria, var. egerides, Lang, Butterflies of Europe, p. 



294, pi. 73, fig. 3 (1884). 

 Lasiommata cegeria, Buckler, Larvse of Brit. Butterflies and 



Moths, i., pp. 27, 163, pi. 4. fig. 1 (18S6). 

 Pararge a-geria, Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl., i., p. 227, pi. 31 



OS93)- 



p. Mediterranean Form. (P. egeria.) 



Papilio cegeria, Linn., Syst. Nat. (xii.), i. (2), p. 473. no. S3 



(1758). 

 Papilio meone, Cramer, Bap. Exot., iv., pi. 314, figs. E. F. 



(1780). 



Satyrus a-geria, Kirby, /. s. c, p. 39 (1S7S). 



Pararge egeria, Lang, /. s. c, p. 293, pi. 73, fig. 2 (1884). 



This is a very common Butterfly in many parts of Britain, 

 frequenting woods, lanes, and hedgerows, from spring to 

 autumn. It expands an inch and three quarters or two inches 

 across the wings, which are brown. The fore-wings have a 

 black eye, with a white pupil near the tip, and their outer half 

 is spotted with pale yellow. The hind-wings are marked with 

 three sub-marginal eyes in pale yellow rings, and there are 



