2i6 hEPIDOPTERA. 



provinces. In mountain districts in France, where it occurs, 

 both varieties (with and without white pupils to the black 

 dots) appear to be found flying together. 



2. E. Blandina, Fah.; Medea, Huh.; ^thiops, Staud. 

 Cat. — Expanse, I5 to If inch. Rich dark brown; each wing 

 with an elongated orange-red blotch enclosing three or four 

 ocellated spots. 



Fore wings broad, with rounded costal and hind margins ; 

 hind wings with the margin very slightly scalloped. Colour 

 rich velvety dark brown. Fore wings of the male having 

 beyond the middle a broad, transverse, orange-red or chest- 

 nut coloured blotch, broadest in its upper half, and contain- 

 ing three or four white-centred black spots, the uppermost 

 pair of which coalesce. Hind wings with a narrower and 

 more obscure orange-red band before the hind margin, con- 

 taining three or four similar, ocellated, black spots, the white 

 centi-es of which, in many cases, are sharply defined and 

 brilliant. Cilia of all the wings variable in colour, sometimes 

 dark brown with pale tips, in other cases whitish mixed with 

 brown and dashed with darker brown from the nervures. 



Female with the orange-red bands of the fore wings paler, 

 sometimes pale orange, but brighter, with the spots more 

 sharply distinct, and their white centres larger and more 

 brilliantly white ; hind wings as in the male, but frequently 

 the ground colour of fore and hind wings is less dark and not 

 so velvety ; cilia whiter. 



Under side of the fore wings hardly so dark as the upper, 

 and without the velvety gloss ; sometimes tinged with ashy 

 or olive, and with the costal margin rather pale ; band and 

 spots as on the upper side ; of the hind wings, in the male, 

 dark red brown, with a broad band beyond the middle, and 

 sometimes a fainter one towards the base, of a delicate ashy 

 brown, in such a manner that the wing is regularly divided 

 into zones or bauds alternately ashy and dark brown ; in the 

 female these alternate bands are far more conspicuous, and 



