A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPlDOrTERA OF IRELAND. 2l3 



Pararge egeria V. EGERiDES, Stgv. — Everywhere abundant, 

 and double-brooded. 



Pararge meg^ra, L.— Everywhere abundant throughout 

 Ireland. 



Satyrus semele, L. — Widely distributed throughout the 

 coast-line from Donegal, Derry, Antrim, Newcastle, Co. Down, 

 Howth, Arldow, Minehead, Kinsale, Dursey Island, Galway, and 

 Sligo ; and often it is very numerous. It also occurs locally 

 inland in rocky districts in Ulster, and the South and West ; 

 such as New Boss, Wexford {B.-H.) ; and Moycullen and else- 

 where in Co. Galway. The Irish insect is fine and well marked, 

 but neither in size nor colour is comparable to specimens I have 

 taken in France, North Italy, and Switzerland. The blotches of 

 upper side are occasionally of a deep rusty red in male, and paler 

 rufous in female. Minehead, Co. Waterford ; and Markree, Co. 

 Sligo, &c. 



Var. mistcBus, Bon. — A very fine form occurs rarely, which 

 seems referable to this variety. A female, sent me from Co. 

 Galway by a friend, may be thus described : — Expanse, 2 in. 

 The whole inner area of all wings tawny fulvous, the streak or 

 blotch bearing the apical ocellus of fore wing paler, and bounded 

 interiorly by a dark rectangular costal patch, sharply defined 

 against the fulvous ground. The apex of the fore wing and 

 outer margins are dark greyish brown like the type, and the 

 costa and inner margins lightly shaded with the same. The 

 under side of fore wing entirely fulvous, except the costal and 

 outer margins and the ocelli. That of hind wing is very strongly 

 marked, and the waved pale median band very white. 



Epinephele ianira, L. — Everywhere common. The male 

 sometimes shows on the fore wing a series of faintly-marked 

 fulvous blotches, and the apical ocellus has sometimes a second 

 small one attached below. The Kev. James Bristow has a speci- 

 men with a small ocellus towards the anal angle, and a minute 

 one between it and the apical. This aberration is evidently a 

 reversion to the general design of the Satyridffi, and thus is very 

 interesting. Mr. Dale refers to this aberration as having come 

 under his notice also ('British Butterflies,' p. 98). Occasionally 

 in Ireland the female shows an equally interesting genetic 

 character, in the apical ocellus being bipupilled as in tithonus 

 and ida. This aberration has been taken in Westmeath by Miss 

 Reynell, and I have others. I have also seen similar specimens 

 from Scotland and Kent in Mr. Tugwell's and Mr. Tutt's cabi- 

 nets respectively. The female is often very large and brightly 

 coloured, the fulvous patch much extended, and on both wings. 

 I have seen this in Galway and in Monaghan, and elsewhere. It 

 would appear to be the var. splendida of Dr. Buchanan White. 

 I have one specimen from Waterford (C/.), with large fulvous 

 band on fore wing only, and the ocellus unpupilled. 



