2 to LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



mcera, are met with as far as the Himalayas. With the ex- 

 ception of .S. megera, the species generally frequent rocky 

 places. 



As S. megcera is called " Le satyre" by the old French 

 writers, and was also called Satyrus by Linnaeus in some of his 

 earlier works, there can be no question that it should be 

 regarded as the type of the genus Satyrus ; though this generic 

 name was originally used to include the whole Sub-family by 

 Latreille and others. 



THE WALL BROWN. SATYRUS MEG/ERA. 



(Pla/e XXXII., Figs. 4, 5.) 



Papilio megcera, Linn., Syst. Nat. (xii.), i., pt. 2, p. ryi, no. 



142 (1767); Esper, Schmett., i., pt. 1, p. 96, pi. 6, fig. 3 



(i777); '•> Pt- 2, p. 100, pi. 68, fig. 4 (17S1). 

 Hipparchia megcera, Stephens, 111., Brit. Ent. Haust, i., p. 55 



(1S27). 

 Satyrus u/egcra, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 39, pi. 



13, figs. 2, a-c (1S78). 

 Pararge megaira, Lang, Butterflies of Europe, p. 293, pi. 72, 



fig. 5 (1884); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl., i., p. 234, pi. 32 



(1893)- 

 Lasiommata megcera, Buckler, Larva? of British Butterflies and 

 Moths, p. 165, pi. 4, fig. 2 (1SS6). 



Next to the Meadow Brown, this is probably the commonest 

 species of the Sub-family. It frequents lanes, hedgerows, open 

 places in woods, roads, &c, throughout the summer, and some- 

 times settles on walls, whence its name. It measures about an 

 inch and a half across the wings. The fore-wings are fulvous, 

 bordered and more or less interlined with brown, and in the 

 male there is a broad oblique brown bar towards the inner- 

 margin ; at the tip is a black eye, with one white pupil. The 

 hind-wings are brown, with two sub-marginal fulvous streaks, 



