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round it ; the under side of both wings, above the band, is marbled with 

 transverse deeper coloured streaks ; the secondaries nre dcntated but not 

 the primaries, which at the margin have two transverse black parallel 

 lines ; in the former there is anteriorly a costal paler bar, and the posterior 

 half of the wing is paler ; between the bar and the marginal paler band 

 are three minute eyelets, with a black iris and bluish pupil, arranged 

 transversely in a triangle; and three more similar ones arranged oblicjuely, 

 the external one minute, in the paler part, the internal one pointing to the 

 anal angle. 



[Quite common in Canada ; included in the genus ^rt/j-^^/j- West wood.] 



[298.] 416. HiPPARCHiA DiscoiDAiJS Kirby. — Plate iii., figs. 2, 3. — 

 Expansion of the wings 1^-2 inches. Several specimens taken at Cum- 

 berland-house, Lat. 54°. 



Body brown. Antennae annulated with white ; wings very entire, 

 brown ; costa spotted with gray ; a triangulai obscure reddish-tawny dis- 

 coidal stripe extends from the base to the posterior margin of the pri- 

 maries, and is discoverable also on the under side where the wing is faintly 

 clouded with gray at the tip ; the secondaries underneath are indistinctly 

 marbled and clouded with gray or whitish scales ; fringe whitish and brown 

 alternately. 



[A northern species ; has been taken at Fort Simpson, and in Alaska.] 



FAMILY LYCEXID.K 



417. Thecla AUGUSTUS Kirby.— Plate iii., figs. 4, 5. — Expansion of 

 the wings i inch. Taken in Lat. 54°. 



Antennas annulated with white \ knob elongated ; wings dusky black 

 with a dull ferruginous disk ; fringe alternately black and white ; second- 

 aries underneath black at the base ; at the apex dusky ash coloured, with 

 a transverse series of about eight black spots, rudiments of which appear 

 on the same surface of the primaries. 



Named after the Esquimaux Augustus. 



[Taken in Canada, the New England States, and New York.] 



[299.] 418. Lyc1':na DORCAS Kirby. — Plate iv., fig. i. — Expansion 

 of the wings i inch. Taken in Lat. 54''. 



Body black above, white underneath. Antenna? black, annulated with 

 white ; knob tipped with orange ; wings brown with a reddish tint, under- 



