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WALL BUTTERFLY, 



Hipparchia Megcera. 



PLATE XXII. Fig. 3. 



Pap. Megaera, Linn. Donovan^ viii. pi. 279. — Orange Argus 

 Lewin, pi. 21 — Great Argus, Wilkes — Wall Butterfly, 

 Harris. 



The greater part of the anterior wings is orange- 

 yellow inclining to brown, with the hinder margin, 

 and several transverse irregular bands on the disk, 

 dark-brown ; each wing with a large ocellus towards 

 the tip, with a black iris and white pupil, sometimes 

 having a smaller one adjoining. The hinder wings are 

 dark-brown, with two transverse patches or bands 

 posteriorly, that next the margin broadest, and bear- 

 ing a row of ocelli, varying from three to five in num- 

 ber, the lateral ones frequently without a pupil. Be- 

 neath, the upper wings are pale, with the brown 

 bands faintly marked ; the ocellus, however, is large, 

 and surrounded with a brown ring; the under pair 

 nearly ash-grey, sprinkled with black points, and 

 traversed by two narrow undulating brown lines, be- 

 tween which and the hinder margin there is a curved 

 series of six ocelli, that next the anal angle being 



