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MEADOW-BROWN BUTTERFLY - . 
Hipparchia Janira. 
PLATE XXIV. Figs. ]. & 2. 
Pap. Janira, Linn. 3 — Pap. Jurtina $, Linn. — P. Jurtina, 
Donovan, ix. 69. pi. 320. — Lewin, pi. 18. 
This species is considerably larger than the pre- 
ceding, the wings of the female sometimes expand- 
ing nearly two inches. The ground colour is brown, 
varying considerably in shade, but usually darkest 
in the male. In that sex, the upper wings are in 
general entirely brown, with a small ocellus towards 
the apex encircled with reddish-yellow ; but in the 
female, there is a large transverse patch of ochre - 
yellow beyond the middle of the wing, in which is 
placed a large black ocellus, with a white pupil, and 
the space between this patch and the base is very 
obscurely tinged with reddish-yellow. The hinder 
wings are usually unspotted in the male, but those 
of the female have frequently an obscure yellowish 
mark in the middle. The under side of the primary 
■wings is tawny-orange, with a paler band not far 
from the hinder margin, in which is placed an ocel- 
lus, as on the upper surface, sometimes having a 
