196 A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF 



year (1857) on the 4th June, in the vicinity of Callaly, I ob- 

 served its simultaneous occurrence in great numbers through- 

 out that district, where not a single one was to be seen the 

 previous day — a striking, but not unfrequent incident amongst 

 the Diurnal Lepidoptera. 



The usual expansion of the wings is V 8" to 1' 11'', but in 

 the year 1832, none exceeded I'o"; and so marked was the 

 difference all over the country, that many were inclined to con- 

 sider the specimens as those of a distinct species. The following 

 season there was no departure from the normal size. 



Family 2. NYMPHALID^, Sivain. 

 Sub-family 1. SATYRIDI, Steph. 



5. Lasiommata, West, 

 1. L. iEoERiA, Linn. 



Papilio ^geria, Linn. S. Nat. ii. 771. — Don. Brit. Ins. xiv. 

 n,j)l' 4:23.— Hilb. Pap. 181, 182.— Wood I nd. Ent. t. 1, 

 36. Hipparchia ^geria, Steph. Illust. Haust. i. 54. 

 Lasiommata ^geria, Staint. Man. i. 27. 

 Larva. HiXh. Gesch. Pap. I. Nymph. F. 6, 1. — Dup. Icon. 

 \. pi. 21, f. 11. 

 Apparently local, occurring in April and May, and again in 

 July and August, in and near woods. The late Mr. R. Currie 

 took it in' the neighbourhood of Belford, in the spring of 1826. 

 " Twizell." — P. J. Selhj, Esq. " Castle Eden Dene."— William 

 Backhouse^ Esq. Sunderland. — E. Backhouse, Jun., Esq. 



" 2. L. Meg^ra, Linyi. 



Papilio Mega^ra, Linn. S. Nat. ii. 771. — Don. Brit. Ins. viii. 



11, pi. 202.— Hub. Pap. Ill, 178, dU-ni .— Wood Ind. 



Ent. t. 2, 37. Hipparchia Megsera, Steph. Illust. Haust. 



i. 55. Lasiommata Megsera, Staint. Man. i. 27. 



Larva. Hilh. Gesch. Pap. I. Nymph. F. 1. — Dup. Icon. i. 



pi. 26,/. 72. 



Generally distributed in dry lanes and about walls, appearing 



in May, and a second time in August and September. It is the 



