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MARBLED WHITE BUTTERFLY. 
Hipparchia Galathea. 
PLATE XXIII. Fig. 1. 
Pap. Galathea, Linn — Donovan , viii. IS, pi. 2S8. <J 
Lewin, pi. 20 — Wilkes' English Butterflies, pi. 100. 
The colours of this handsome species are black 
and greenish-yellow, each of them occupying almost 
equal portions of the surface. The upper wings 
have a large somewhat oval yellow spot at the base, 
three large patches of the same colour near the 
middle, divided into spots by the black nervures, two 
small ones near the anterior angle, and a row of 
small points parallel with the margin ; the fringe of 
the latter with alternating spots of black and yellow. 
There is likewise a large yellow spot at the base of 
the under wings, a broad irregular band of the same 
colour in the middle, traversed by tbe black ner- 
vures, and a row of small yellow spots near the 
hinder extremity. The under side is paler than the 
upper, the greenish-yellow colour greatly predomi- 
nating, all the wings having a row of large triangular 
marks on the hinder margin. There is a small ocellus 
near the tip of the upper pair, and five others on the 
hinder wings, forming an irregular row, interrupted 
