96 nUTTERFLY COLLECTOR'S 



Cuterpillar subfiisifomi, tuberculated ; tail bifid. 

 Chrysulis angular, suspended ; head-case eared. 

 Sei>i>. I, i. pi. iii.. — vi. 



N. B.—H. Seine/e in its antenna; varies from the other 

 Hipparchia, the knob being abrupt, wide and short. 



HIPPARCHIA HYPERANTHUS, RINGLET. 



Lewiihpl.20. Donov(m,v.8,p.281. Ditiwan, pl.24,Jig.4. 



Bntterfly. The primary wings above, brown, often with 

 one or two black spots faintly ocellated ; underneath, with 

 three posterior eyelets, the innermost being very minute. 

 The secondary wings above, with two eyelets, undenieutb 

 with two contiguous eyelets near the anterior margin, and 

 with three posterior ones distinct, the third towards the anal 

 angle twice as small as the others. All the wings paler, and 

 edged with a whiti.sh fringe. 



N. B.— In the male ? The wings are darker in the upper 

 side, with only one spurious eyelet in the primary, and 

 underneath the minute eyelet is wanting, but the others are 

 more distinct. 



Caterpillar. Whitish grey, with a narrow brownish stripe. 

 Sometimes black. 



Chrysalis. Bright brown, with obscure streaks and 

 shadows. 



Ohservatir,n . This Butterfly, which presents great variation 

 in the size and numljcr of the ocelli, deposits her eggs at 

 random, on different plants. The Caterpillar is polyphagous. 

 It has been noticed, that all larvse wliich live in solitude, 

 proceed from eggs laid singly. 



