204 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Pup^ more rounded than in previous species, usually sus- 

 pended by tiie tail, but sometimes unattached, between 

 grasses on tlie ground, or even beneath the surface. 



Genus 1. MELANARGIA. 



Antennae rather long, thickened gradually to a fusiform 

 club. Head tufted with long hairs ; eyes naked. Wings 

 rounded behind, the hinder pair slightly scalloped. 



LarVjE downy, with rounded heads. 



PuPjE shoi't, rounded, not attached, but lying upou the 

 ground among grass. 



1. M. Galathea, L. — Expanse, If to 2 inches. 



Blackish-brown, marbled with large white or primrose 

 spots. Under side paler. 



Fore wings with rounded costal and hind margins ; hind 

 wings with hind margin scalloped. Black-brown ; costa of 

 fore wings dusted with white ; and with a large ovate 

 whitish or creamy blotch near the base, followed by a broad, 

 irregular, angulated band of the same colour, divided into 

 large ovate blotches by the dark nervures ; two or three 

 similar small blotches across the apex, and a row of small 

 ones along the hind margin ; hind wings also with a large, 

 ovate whitish blotch near the base ; a broad transverse band 

 of the same colour beyond it, faintly divided by dark nervures ; 

 and a row of somewhat lunate similar spots along the hind 

 marsrin. In the intermediate dark band is a row of round 

 black spots with blue centres, often obscured by the dark 

 ground colour, but sometimes conspicuous and ringed with 

 whitish. There is also a round black spot in one of the pale 

 blotches near the apex of the fore wings, but this pale blotch 

 is not constant, and it is often obscured. The darker portions 

 of the bases of all the wings are delicately dusted with whitish 

 hairs, and the cilia are pale yellowish, broadly interrupted 



