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Abroad it is found iu Western, Central, and youtliern 

 Europe, Ai-menia, and Asia Minor. 



3. E. Hyperanthus, L. — Expanse If to 2 inches. 

 Blackish-brown ; under side yellowish brown, with a row of 

 white-centred, yellow-ringed, black spots. 



Fore wings with the costa strongly arched, hind margin 

 and apex rounded ; hind wings rounded, hind margin slightly 

 undulating, or faintly excavated between the nervures. 

 Blackish-brown with a rich velvety gloss, base scarcely darker 

 than the rest of the wings. Cousidei'ably beyond the middle 

 of fore and hind wings are two obscure, round, black spots, 

 occasionally with pale rings, and in the hind wings often 

 faintly white-centred. These are usually most distinct in the 

 female, and in the male are sometimes concealed by the dark 

 ground colour. Underside golden brown, the fore wings 

 with three, and the hind with five, white-centred round black 

 spots placed in yellow rings ; those on the fore wings in a 

 nearly straight line beyond the middle ; of those on the hind, 

 two, confluent, on the middle of the costal margin, and the 

 rest in a row before the hind margin. Cilia, above and 

 below, whitish. Sexes similar ; female usually slightly the 

 larger, and more strongly marked. There is some variation, 

 as already remarked, in the absence or presence, and dis- 

 tinctness, of the round black spots upon the upper side, and 

 occasionally, in both sexes, a third is visible upon the fore 

 wings. A far more extreme variation in this direction occurs 

 occasionally in the North of Ireland, whence by the kindness 

 of the Rev. W. P. Johnson, I have a female in which these 

 three spots on the fore wings and two on the hind 

 are as distinct and as strongly ringed with yellow as those 

 of the under side, but those of the fore wings are not pupil- 

 lated, and those of the hind have but the faintest possible 

 white centres. A somewhat similar form is said by Mr. A. 

 E. Hudd to be found at Wells, Somerset, but I have not seen 

 it. Major Still finds specimens on some of the slopes of Dart- 



