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SILVER-BORDERED RINGLET. 



PLATE XXV. 



Hip parch la, Hero, Ochsenheimhr. Stephen's. Curtis. 



Papilio Hero, Lixn.eus. H.vwortii. 



Papilio Sahccini, Fabricius. 



Papilio MelihcEUf;, Erxst. 



. Oopiioni/mpJia Hern, ^VE?T^\"l)or). 



This is one of the rarest British insects; two specimens 

 only being all that at present are known to have occurred. 

 One, a female, w^as taken by Mr. Plastcad, near Withyam, on 

 the borders of Ashdown Forest, Sussex; and Mr. Stephens states 

 that he obtained another from the neighbourhood of Lamberhurst, 

 in the same county. Who knows however, how many others 

 may have been overlooked, or how many may yet be taken 

 by keen observers, who act upon the moral conveyed in Mrs. 

 Barbauld's instructive story of "Eyes and no Eyes?" 



This Butterfly measures about one inch and a half in the 

 expanse of its wings; they are of a general fulvous brown 

 colour. The fore "wings are paler along the front edge, and 

 have an orange stripe close to the hind margin, near which 

 are two small indistinct orange-coloured eyes with brown centres. 



The hind wings have also a narrow orange stripe near the 

 outer margin, above which are four large black eyes, with 

 minute whitish-coloured pupils, and surrounded by a broad 

 orange ring. 



Underneath, the fore wings are of the same general colour 

 as the upper side, but there is a narrow silver stripe adjoining 

 the orange one. In the hind wings there is a continuation, 

 as it were, of the silver stripe through them, and also an 

 irregular Avhitish bar rather bevond the middle, succeeded by 



