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ocellate spots with black centres : these ocelli stand between the nervures. Near the 

 base there is a lunule, with a round spot in its concavity. Underside reddish clay- 

 colored, mottled and clouded. Forewing the red is deeper, and the outer angle or 

 apex has a dark triangular space dotted with red : outer margin clouded with red- 

 dish of different hues. Spread of wing, about one and a half inches. 

 This beautiful species is less common here than the preceding. 



Hipparchiides. 



HIPPARCHIIDES ( Westwood). SATYRIDES ( Boisduval). 



The palpi of this subfamily are three-jointed and elongated, and their antennse thickened 

 very gradually at the tips. The insects are not robust, but rather feeble in flight. Their 

 colors, though frequently beautiful, belong rather to the neutral tints : they are brown 

 and yellow, with ocelli for ornaments. The larvae feed upon the grasses during the night 

 season : their bodies are widest in the middle : some of them undergo their transforma- 

 tions in the earth, and others suspend themselves by their tails. 



HippARCHiA ALOPE. ( Plate xxxiii, figs. 5, 6.) 



Brown ; paler beneath. Antennae slender and arcuate : knob a mere dilatation of the 

 upper end ; stipe annulated with white. Upper side : Forewings marked with a 

 broad luteous band, or rather oblong spot placed upon the outer half of the wing, 

 and ornamented with two eyelets with a black iris and bluish pupil. Hind wings more 

 distinctly crenate than the forewings, and marked towards the posterior margin with 

 a. single small eyelet with a black iris and blue pupil. Beneath, the eyelets are 

 rather more distinct than above. Wings barred transversely by darker lines : posterior 

 are marked by six small eyelets arranged in two lines, three in each ; the largest in 

 the middle, and each surrounded with a perfect brown ring outside of the black iris. 

 The margins of the wings are traversed by black and brown lines running parallel 

 with the edge, which is densely ciliate. Legs ashen. Common. 



Hipparchia nephele. Clouded Hipparchia. ( Plate xxxiii, figs. 3, 4.) 



Color brown above and beneath, but paler beneath. Antennae annulated with white ; knob 

 slender. Upper side is marked with an obsolete but broad submarginal band, in 

 which there are two eyelets With a clouded white or bluish white pupil, and a black 

 iris with a very indistinct brown ring. The posterior wings are crenate, and marked 

 with a minute or obsolete black spot. Under side, the belt of the anterior wings is 

 much more distinct, the eyelets bright, and the outer ring of brown plain : margin 

 of the wing traversed with two or three lines parallel to the edge. Outer half of the 

 hlndwing paler, and marked with six small eyelets, which form three rows, the largest 



