Male: fore wings clear grey-brown, with a large black 

 rounded eye, with rings of dull pink and blue, a little 

 above the middle, set in a white oblong patch, most 

 visible on the inner side; there is a pink mark near the 

 outer corner, and two waved streaks of pale-pink across. 

 Hind wings dull but clear orange-red, with an eye in 

 the middle of black, with rims of dull pink and blue, 

 and a grey-brown border bounding a streak of greyish 

 blue round the outer margin. There is a Avhite collar 

 on the neck. 



Female: fore wings grey, marked similarly to the male. 

 Hind wings grey, also with markings much the same. 



Localities for this species, which is extensively distri- 

 buted, are Linwood near Market-Rasen, Langwith. near 

 York, Thome Moor near Doncaster, Canterbury, Adding- 

 ton, Bisterne, Winchester, Ripon, Lancaster, Manchester, 

 Carlisle, Dunoon, Killarney. 



The situations where it is found are heathy commons, 

 &c. 



The perfect insect appears in May. 



The caterpillar, which is handsome and conspicuous, is 

 green, with velvet-black bands and seven raised spots of 

 golden-yellow, surrounded by a rim of black, and tufted 

 with thin black hairs. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 

 August and September. 



It feeds on the heath ( Calluna rulijarisj, the bramble, 

 the willow, the apple, &c. 



