VADE MECUM. 99 



IllPPARCHIA PAMPHILUS, SMALL IIKATH. 

 Lewin,pl. 23,/. 3, 4. Duncati,pl. 26,fig. 3. 



Butterfly. Wings all tawiiy with darker margins. The 

 primary have a posterior blind eyelet, these underneath are 

 cinereous at the base and tip, have a largish posterior eyelet 

 with a white jjupil and black iris, with a whitish margin. 

 The secondary wings imdemeath, are brown at the ba.se, 

 cinereou.s at the tip, with an abbreviated whitish slender 

 band in the middle, and with four minute obliterated eyelets. 



Caterpillar. Green, with white dorsal lines. 



Chrysalis. Green. 



HIPPARCHIA SEMELE, GREYLING. 



heivin, pi. 17. Donovan, v.S,p. 259. Duncan, pi. 22, fin. 1 . 



Butterfly. The primary wings dull brown, with a lower 

 pale interrupted irregular transver.se band abbreviated at 

 each end, in which are two eyelets on both sides, the pupil 

 white very minute, with a black broad iris, in the male often 

 without the jjupil. Underneath at tlie base, brown with a 

 taxvny disk, then a])ale broad band ; the posterior margin is 

 clouded with brown and white. The secondary wings dull 

 brown above, with a broad posterior transverse pale band, 

 clouded with brown, in which in the female there is a' small 

 eyelet, iris tawny witli a black pupil. Posterior margin 

 black, brown fringed with white. Underneath clouded with 

 white, broivn, and black, the base darker than the posterior 

 half of the wing, the darker ])art terminating in an irregular 

 sinuated line. The female much paler than the male, and 

 with larger eye-like spots. 



