2 - s Lloyd's natural history. 



mountains. Il - "( n found in company with E. 



the Continent, but there is no evidence that it is truly British. 

 e are two specimens in the British Museum which belonged 

 to the collection of the late James Francis Stephens, and are 

 They are said to have been taken in the 

 Isle of Arran by Sir Patrick Walker : but one of the specimens 

 is not E. ligea at all, but belongs to an allied mountain species, 

 E - •' *per) 3 and this throws additional doubt on the 



authentic:': ; specimens. If the I were really 



a native of the Isle of Arran, it could not have been over- 

 looked by the many collectors who have %isited the island of 

 late y 



The Butterfly is of a rich brown colour, with red marginal 

 bands, marked with four bla te pjpils on the 



fore-wings, and three on the hind-wings. The two eyes nearest 

 the tip of the fore-wings are more or less confluent. The 

 of the hind-wings is marked with an irregular 

 and interru] t = d white band, at once distinguishing it from nearly 

 all the other known species of the genus. It measures from an 

 inch and a half to an inch and three-quarters across the wings. 

 It flies in July and Am list 



The larva is green 5 h on the back, and with white 



idinal stripes on the sides. It feeds on grass in sprint 



and autumn. ° 



THE SCOTCH ARGUS. EREBIA .ETHIOPS. 



to XXX., Figs. 3, 4.) 



i er, Schmett, i., pt. 1, p. 312, pi. 25, fig. 3 

 - 2 >P- 73, PL 63, fig. 1 (1 7 7 8? 

 7, Fabr., Mant. Ins., ::'.. p. 41, no. 412 (17S7). 

 - - Schmett., i., figs. 220-222 

 (1797?;. 



