SATYRUS. 



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of which the outer one is the broadest, and contains three 

 black eyes with white pupils, besides a rudimentary one to- 

 wards the anal angle. On the under side the apical eye of the 

 fore-wings is surrounded by a whitish yellow ring, and the hind- 



The Wall Brown (Satyrus megcera). Upper side of Female. 



wings are brownish-grey, with six small black eyes with white 

 pupils, each enclosed by one brown and one yellowish ring. 

 The eye nearest the anal angle is two-pupilled. Our plate 

 represents'the male. The female is figured in the cuts. 



The larva is pubescent, light green, with pale dorsal and 

 lateral lines; it feeds on grass. 



The commonest of the Continental species allied to S. 

 megara is S. mcera, but this is a larger and darker insect, 

 with a fulvous blotch on the fore-wings, on which the eye, which 



