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remark that the representations of the under sides of lo, Atalanta, 

 Htmtera and Cardui, are perfect : there is a sober truthfulness about 

 them which, except by Sepp, has never before been attained. The 

 total absence of all trick and meretricious ornament is the prevailing 

 character of all Mr. Humphreys' figures j but those which I have here 

 particularized are preeminently natural. 



PI. XVI. fig. 1 — 5. Apatura Iris ; unquestionably British. 



Fig. 6 — 9. Limenitis Camilla ; unquestionably British. This is 

 another insect which has entirely disappeared from the metropolitan 

 district, though formerly abundant. 



PI. XVII. fig. 1 — 6. Arge Galatea : unquestionably British. 



Fig. 7 — 10. Lasiommata JEgeria ; unquestionably British. This 

 genus has previously been characterized by Hubner under the name 

 Pyrarge ; Mr. Westwood's new name of Lasiommata will therefore 

 become a synonyme. 



PI. XVIII. fig. 1 — 5. Lasiommata Megcera; unquestionably Brit- 

 ish. This species is the Dira Megaera of Hubner, but its characters 

 are so nearly those of the preceding species, that there appeal's no suf- 

 ficient ground for separating them as genera. 



Fig. 6 — 10. HipparcJiia Semele ; unquestionably British. 



PI. XIX. fig. 1, 2. Hipparcliia Briseis. I extract the authority on 

 which this fine European species is given as British. 



" We have introduced this common continental species for the first time as an Eng- 

 lish insect, a specimen having been reared by A. Lane, Esq. from the larva, which was 

 found feeding on grass, near Newington. The perfect insect was exhibited at the 

 meeting of the Entomological Society on the 7th of October, 1839, the larva having 

 been captured on the 11th of August preceding." — p. 69, 



Fig. 3 — 7. Hipparchia Tithonus ; unquestionably British. 



PI. XX. fig. 1 — 5. Hipparchia Janira ; unquestionably British. 



Fig. 6 — 9. Hipparchia Hyperanthus ; unquestionably British. 



PI. XXI. fig. 1 — 9. Coenom.orpha Davus, Typhon and Polydama ; 

 unquestionably British. These insects are now almost universally 

 held to be of no higher value than varieties, although some of our most 

 profound Lepidopterists still consider them to be species. I took them 

 flying together in the mountains of Donegal in 1839, and observed va- 

 rieties which appeared still more striking than any of those figured by 

 Mr. Humphreys. Unfortunately the specimens never reached their 

 destination. 



PI. XXII. fig. 1, 2. Coenomorpha Pamphilus ; unquestionably 

 British. 



