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apprehend are the only specimens at present in any of the London cabinets. 

 Though but lately introduced to our attention as a native of Great Britain, 

 this interesting insect is by no means unknown to the Continental naturalists 

 as an inhabitant of Germany. It is the true Papilio Handina of the Fabri- 

 can system. This author likewise describes another Papilio under the same 

 name, but it is an East Indian species, and belongs to the Nymphales tribe, 

 and cannot be confounded with ours. He likewise describes another Papilio 

 under the specific name of Ligea. This latter is, however, sufficiently dis- 

 tinguished by having four ocellated black spots in the rufous band on the 

 upper wings instead of three, as in Blandina, and a white spot at the end of 

 the band on the underside of the posterior wings, which the other has not. 

 Papilio ligea was discovered in the Isle of Arran, by Major Walker, at the 

 time as Blandina." 



Stephen's, in his " Illustrations," writes of Blandina: " Discovered many 

 years since in the Isle of Arran by Dr. Walker, and subsequently taken there 

 by Sir Patrick Walker and Dr. Leach, and in profusion, in July, 1825, by 

 Messrs. Curtis and Dale, the latter of whom supplied me with a fine series of 

 both sexes. It has recently been found not uncommonly at Castle Eden, 

 Durham : but the English specimens appear to differ considerably from the 

 Scotch." 



Sub-Genus MELAMPIAS. 

 Huhner, 



The species of this Sub-genus differ from those of the preceding in having 

 the wings much more elongated, the hind pair being also entire and not 

 denticulated. All are essentially Alpine or mountain species. 



EREBIA EPIPHRON. 

 Mountain Ringlet. 



Epiphron, Knock Epi'phron, perhaps a grammatical error for Ephron, 

 a Hittite, who sold to Abraham a plot of land to bury his wife in. Ephron 

 is a Hebrew word signifying dust. 



The wings expand from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a third. On 

 the upperside they are of a rich dark brown colour, with a silky gloss ; the 

 fore-wings having an irregular tranverse bar, or rather a band-like series of 

 ferruginous markings running parallel to the outer margin of the wing, these 

 markings are five or six in number, of which the second, third, and fifth al- 

 ways include a white pupilled black spot, the fourth rarely has the spot of 

 equal size with the rest, it is generally reduced to a mere point and is often 



