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SCARCE SMALL RINGLET BUTTERFLY. 



Hipparchia Davits. 

 PLATE XXVI. FIG. 1. 



Pap. Davus, Fab Pap. Hero, Donovan, vi. pi. 186* 

 Lewin, pi. 23, figs. 5. # 6. 



THE expansion of the wings is from 15 to 20 

 lines ; the colour of the surface obscure ochrey-yel- 

 low, inclining to brown, the fringe and interior edge 

 of the hinder wings dull white : towards the hinder 

 margin of the upper wings, there are usually two 

 ocelli without pupils, and a curved row of three or 

 four others, likewise without any central dot, not far 

 from- the hinder margin of the secondary pair. Be- 

 neath, the upper wings are brighter yellow than 

 above, the apex greyish- white, each with a cross band 

 of white beyond the middle, and exterior to it two 

 remote ocelli, having a black iris and a white pupil, 

 and occasionally a small imperfect one between them. 

 The secondary wings underneath are very pubes- 

 cent, greenish -brown from the base nearly to the 

 middle, where that colour terminates in an irregular 

 line, and is succeeded by a narrow and very unequal 

 white band, usually interrupted ; the space behind 

 this is light brown, inclining to yellow, and orna- 



