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band, including two large eyelets ; that next the anal angle, which is the largest, consists first of a 

 narrow black atmosphere, next is a broad brown iris edged with white, and a white, brown, and blue, 

 round pupil, the white part of which is dusted with blue ; the other eyelet has the same external 

 circles, but the pupil is dark and edged with some blue scales ; the brown band is edged with pale ; 

 between it and the posterior margin is an indented blue band consisting of concatenated crescents, 

 and edged with black ; to this succeeds a grayish white band divided into two by a narrow black 

 line and terminated by a marginal one ; fringe brown and white. 



Family HIPPARCHIAD^. Hipparchiadans. 



CLXXXIII. Genus HIPPARCHIA. Fab. 



(415) 1. * Hipparchia Nephele. Cloud Hipparchia. 



H. (Nephele J alls omnibus fuscis ; primoribus supra et infra fascia pallidiori ocellos binos includente; secundariis subtus apicem 



versus pallidioribus ; ocellis sex minutis duplici serie. 

 Cloud Hipparchia, with all the wings dentated, brown ; primaries both above and below with a paler band including in it a 



pair of eyelets ; secondaries paler towards the apex with six minute eyelets, arranged in two rows. 



Expansion of the wings 2| inches. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Antennae brown annulated with white, rufous at the end; knob slender: wings brown: primaries 

 both above and below with a paler submarginal broad band including two eyelets ; the upper ones 

 surrounded by a paler atmosphere, with a black iris and white pupil ; on the under side the atmos- 

 phere of the eyelets is more distinct and forms a kind of glory round them ; the pupil is snowy- 

 white with some blue scales scattered round it ; the under side of both wings, above the band, is 

 marbled with transverse deeper coloured streaks : the secondaries are dentated but not the prima- 

 ries, 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 obliquely, the external one minute, in the paler 

 part, the internal one pointing to the anal angle. 



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