36 WOOD BINGLET, 



edged with light brown, more or less distinct in different specimens, 

 near their hind margin. The hind wings have two or more similar 

 eyes near their margins, one or two of them with white specks in the 

 centre. 



Underneath, the ground-colour is a much lighter brown. The eyes 

 on both the fore and hind wings are much larger than above, there 

 being generally three near the outer angle of the upper wings, the rim, 

 eye, and dot being more or less indistinct, and five much more distinct 

 ones on the hind wings, two and three, the latter inside, but following 

 the lower outer margin, and the former, between the base of the wing 

 and its outside corner, near the fore edge. 



The caterpillar is of a greyish white colour, with a slender black 

 line along the back, and sometimes, Mr. Westwood says, it is entirely 

 blackish. 



This butterfly is an exceedingly variable one. In some specimens 

 the eyes are very large, and connected together, accompanied by smaller 

 satellite ones. In some the eyes are wholly obliterated on the fore 

 wings, and indeed, strictly speaking, on the hind wings too, there 

 being in their place three minute white specks. A very extensive series 

 of varieties may easily be procured. J. C. Dale, Esq. has one with 

 unequal spots on the opposite wings, and Mr. Wailes, of Newcastle, 

 one with no spot whatever, either above or below. 



The figures are taken from specimens in my own collection. 



