SOI 
ARRAN BROWN BUTTERFLY. 
Hipparchia Ligea. 
PLATE XXV. Fig. 1. 
Pap. Ligea, Linn. — Stephens' Illust. of Brit. Ent. Haust. 
vol. i. pi. 6. 
In this species, the expansion of the wings is 
from eighteen to twenty- two lines. The colour of 
the upper side is brown, and there is an abbreviated 
reddish hand towards the extremity of each wing 
On the upper pair, this band bears four black ocelli, 
with white pupils ; the latter, however, are wanting 
in the male. The hinder band likewise bears three 
ocelli, presenting the same sexual difference. The un- 
der side is somewhat paler than the upper, the mark- 
ings on the anterior wings not differing materially from 
those on the surface : the most striking peculiarity 
of the hinder pair is an irregular white band, widest 
near the anterior edge, wlfich • extends nearly across 
the wing ; behind this are three round spots, com- 
posed of a red ring enclosing a black ocellus, with 
a white pupil. All the wings are surrounded with 
a white fringe, spotted with brown. The antennoa 
are white beneath. 
