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country. Certainly very common round Belfast wherever a 

 few trees on a hillside afford a suitable spot, also in Donegal ; 

 and any jienchant which it may have for a wet district is 

 there doubtless fully gi'atified. 



In the form found here (var. j3S<jcriclcs) it is common 

 in Central and Northern Europe, and Dr. Lang says that this 

 variety occurs as the spring brood in many localities in 

 Central France and in the South-East of Europe, the summer 

 specimens being of the typical, more fulvous colouring, which 

 is also found in Southern Europe, North Africa and Syria. 



2. P. Megsera, Z.— Expanse, If to 2 inches. Fulvous, 

 with brown nervures, bands, and margins. Apex of fore wings 

 and hind margin of hind wings with ocellated black spots. 



Fore wings rather pointed, with rounded costa, and oblique 

 rounded hind margin ; hind wings rather long, with a 

 rounded margin. Bright tawny ; clouded at the base and 

 along the margins with dull brown, and with the nervures 

 also brown. Male with a broad, oblique, dark-brown fascia, 

 arising in the middle of the dorsal margin, and crossing the 

 middle of the fore wings to the costa, forming an angle at the 

 end of the discal cell. This cell is crossed by three brown 

 bars, the third of which is continued across the central fascia, 

 in a slender angulated stripe, to near the anal angle ; another 

 slender brown stripe runs closely parallel to the hind margin ; 

 and there is a round, blue-centred, black spot near the apex. 

 Hind wings dark golden-brown to the middle, the following 

 fulvous portion being intersected by a curved, narrow, brown 

 transverse stripe. Between this stripe and the brown hind 

 margin is a row of blue-centred round black spots. The 

 broad hind marginal brown bands of fore and hind wings are 

 often partially intersected by a broken paler line. Cilia of 

 all the wings ochreous, broken at the ends of the nervures 

 by brown broad dashes in such a manner as to give the wings 

 a slightly scalloped appearance. 



Female larger, of a rather lighter bright fulvous, entirely 



