202 SCOTCH ARGUS BUTTERFLY. 



The caterpillar is green, blackish on the back* 

 and having longitudinal white stripes on the sides. 



The butterfly is very rare in this country. We 

 have not heard of any other locality than the Isle of 

 Arran, where it was first found by Sir Patrick 

 Walker and A. MacLeay, Esq. It is not an un- 

 common species in several northern countries of Eu- 

 rope, frequenting meadows and woods. 



SCOTCH ARGUS BUTTERI'LY. 



Hipparchia Blandina. 



PLATE XXV. Fig. 2. 



Pap. Blandina, Fabricius — Donovan, xii. 87. pi. 426. 



The colour is brown, generally of a very deep shade, 

 sometimes approacliing to black. Each of the upper 

 wings has a red band externally, which usually bears 

 four ocelli, with bluish-white pupils, the two fore- 

 most being united ; one of them is occasionally ob- 

 solete, and they likewise vary m number. The red 

 band on the hinder wings is short and indistinct : it 

 is somewhat iiiterrupted at the nervures, and has 

 usually three small black ocelli, with white pupils. 

 The markings of the upper wings nearly correspond 

 on both sides ; but the hinder pair, beneath, are 

 crossed behind the middle by a broad irregular band 



