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posteriorly orangc-tawny, with a brown band and margin ; 

 between the band and jjOHterior margin are four eyelets, the 

 lateral ones often blind, pupil white and iris black ; under- 

 neath, a clouded greyish brown, with slender angular bands 

 and six posterior eyelets, (tlie sixtli being double^, the pupil 

 black with a white central dot in a grey iris. There is a 

 scalloped pale band between the eyelets and the posterior 

 margin. 



CalerpiUur. Slender, sea-green, with dark dorsal and sides 

 striped. 



Chrysalis, lilacldsh. 



HIPPARCHIA /EGERIA, SPECKLED WOOD. 

 Lewinpl. 19. Donomnv.li,p.i9S. Dimcati, pl.23,Ji/{.4. 



liulterjli/. The primary wings on both sides brown, with 

 about ten yellowish spots, and with one eyelet towards the 

 tip. The secondary ones brown, with one or more yellowi.sh 

 spots, and with four posterior eyelets, of which the first is 

 often blind ; underneath clouded with brown and with 

 angular brown bands, and in lien of the eyelets, white dots 

 in the mottled marginal baud. 



Caterpillar. Green, with white longitudinal lines. 



Chrysalis. Green, short and unusually distended. 



HIPPARCHIA HAMPSTEDIENSIS, ALBIN'S 

 HAMPSTEAD EYE. 



ButtcrJIy. Size and form of H. /Egeria. Primary wings 

 above, dark brown, with five spots and marginal streak 

 yellow ; two large posterior eyelets on both sides, pupils 

 wliite with broad black irides. The secondary brown, with 



