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WALL BUTTERFL’y. 
H'lpparchia Megrera. 
PLATE XXII. Fig. 3. 
Pap. Megiera, Linn. Donovan, viii. pi. 279 Orange Argus, 
Lewin, pi. 21 Great Argus, Wilkes Wall Butterfly, 
Harris. 
The greater part of the anterior wings is orange- 
yellow inclining to brown, with the hinder margin, 
and several transverse irregular bands on the dish, 
dark-brown ; each wing with a largo ocellus towards 
the tip, with a black iris and white pupil, sometimes 
having a smaller one adjoining. The hinder wings are 
dark-brown, with two transverse patches or bands 
posteriorly, that next tho margin broadest, and bear- 
ing a row of ocelli, varying from three to five in num- 
ber, the lateral ones frequently without a pupil. Be- 
neath, the upper wings are pale, with the brown 
bands faintly marked ; the ocellus, however, is large, 
and surrounded with a brown ring ; the under pair 
nearly ash-grey, sprinkled with black points, and 
traversed by two narrow undulating brown lines, be- 
tween which and the hinder margin there is a curved 
series of six ocelli, that next the anal angle being 
