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of its flight. We find them but little prominent ; his every organ is of the required 

 size. The same law obtains as certainly and unvaryingly in form. There is truly 

 a best form and a best size, and nature always provides both."— Newman in Entomol 

 Magazine. 



PHRAGMATOBIA FULIG1NOSA. THE RUBY TYGER MOTH. 



Plate XXVII. fig. i—m. 



Synonyms. Phalaena (Noctua) fuliginosa, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 836. 

 Wilkes Eng. Moths, pi. 49. 

 Phragmatobia fuliginosa, Stephens. Duncan Brit. Moths, pi. 20. fig. 3. 



Donovan Brit. Ins. iii. pi. 80. 



Upper Side, The head is small ; the thorax and superior wings are of a red brown. The 

 inferior are crimson or deep rose colour, having an irregular border of black along the fan edge, 

 and a small black speck in the centre of the wing. The abdomen is also red, having a black 

 speck on each annulus. 



The under side is somewhat paler. 



The caterpillar feeds on banks, on various herbage ; is taken in May, full fed as at (i) ; 

 changes to chrysalis in a spinning, as at (£), and the moth is figured at (m). This insect 

 continues during the winter in the caterpillar state. The chrysalis is seen at (Z). 



Expansion of the wings 1—1 \ inch. 



HIPPARCHIA MEG^RA. THE WALL [OR GREAT ARGUS] BUTTERFLY. 



Plate XXVII. fig. a-g. 



Synonyms. Papilio (Nymph. Gemm.) Megera, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 774. Lewin's Papil. pi. 21. 

 Donov. Brit. Ins. vol. viii. pi. 279. $. 

 Papilio Nymph. Msegera. llaworth. 



Hipparchia Megaera, Stephens, OcJisenheimer, Curtis. Duncan Brit. Butt. -pi. 22. fig. 3. 

 Papilio Meera, Berkenhout. Wilkes" Eng. Moths fy Butt. pi. 102. (The Great Argus.) 



Harris, 1st edit. (The Wall.) 

 Papilio Oculatus, etc. (The London Eye.) Petiv. Pap. pi. 5. fig 8. $. 



Upper Side. The head, thorax, and abdomen are of a dark brown, The superior wings 

 are of a pleasant brownish yellow, having a round black spot near the apex on the fourth fan 

 membrane, like the eye of a bird, with a small white speck in the middle : between this speck 

 and the thorax are two irregular dark bars, about a quarter of an inch asunder, and another 

 nearer the thorax very short. The inferior wings are in colour and marking similar to the 

 superior, having four spots or eyes near the border, similar to that in the superior wing, see the 

 fig. at (f). The above description is taken from a female, the under side of which is seen at (e). 

 The male differs from the female, in having a dark cloud in the middle of the superior wing. 



The caterpillar feeds on grass, and is full fed about the middle of July, when it appears 

 as at (a). It then hangs itself up perpendicular by the tail, as at (b) ; and changes into the 

 chrysalis seen at (c) and (d). The fly appears about the beginning of August. There are two 

 broods in summer of this insect, one at the end of May, the other in August. 



Expansion of the wings 1J— 2 inches. 



This is one of our most abundant butterflies ; frequenting grassy lanes, woods, 

 and way-sides. 



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