208 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE SPECKLED WOOD BUTTERFLY, OR WOOD ARGUS. PARARGE 

 EGERIDES. 



(Plate X XXL, Fig. 3.) 



a. Northern Form. (P. egerides.) 



Papilio (zgeria (nee L.), Esper, Schmett,, i., p. 105, pi. 7, fig. i 



(1777). 

 Hipparchia cegeria (nee L.), Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust., 



i., p. 54 (1827). 

 Pararge <zgeria, v. egerides, Staud., Cat. Lepid. Eur., p. 30, no. 



372a (1871). 

 Satyrus (zgeria, var. egerides, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, 



p. 39, pi. 12, fig. 10 (1878). 

 Pararge egeria, var. egerides ; Lang, Butterflies of Europe, p. 



294, pi. 73, fig. 3 (1884). 

 Lasiommata cegeria, Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Butterflies and 



Moths, i., pp. 27, 163, pi. 4. fig. i (1886). 

 Pararge ageria^ Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl., i., p. 227, pi. 31 

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ft. Mediterranean Form. (P. egeria.) 

 Papilio (Zgeria) Linn., Syst. Nat. (xii.), i. (2), p. 473, no. 88 



(1758)- 



Papilio meojie^ Cramer, Pap. Exot., iv., pi. 314, figs. E. F. 



(1780). 



Satyrus cegeria, Kirby, /. s. <:., p. 39 (1878). 

 Pararge egeria, Lang, /. s. c., p. 293, pi. 73, fig. 2 (1884). 



This is a very common Butterfly in many parts of Britain, 

 frequenting woods, lanes, and hedgerows, from spring to 

 autumn. It expands an inch and three quarters or two inches 

 across the wings, which are brown. The fore-wings have a 

 black eye, with a white pupil near the tip, and their outer half 

 is spotted with pale yellow. The hind-wings are marked with 

 three sub-marginal eyes in pale yellow rings, and there are 



