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SCOTCH ARGUS BUTTERFLY. 
The caterpillar is green, blackish on the back, 
and having longitudinal white stripes on the sides. 
The butterfly is very rare in this country. We 
have not heard of any other locality than the Isle of 
Arran, where it was first found by Sir Patrick 
Walker and A. MacLeay, Esq. It is not an un- 
common species in several northern countries of Eu- 
rope, frequenting meadows and woods. 
SCOTCH ARGUS BUTTERFLY. 
Hipparchia Blandina, 
PLATE XXV. Fig. 2. 
Pap. Blandina, Fabricius. — Donovan, xii. 87. pi. 425. 
The colouris brown, generally of a very deep shade, 
sometimes approaching to black. Each of the upper 
wings has a red band externally, which usually bears 
four ocelli, with bluish-white pupils, the two fore- 
most being united ; one of them is occasionally ob- 
solete, and they likewise vary in number. The red 
band on the hinder wings is short and indistinct : it 
is somewhat interrupted at the nervures, and has 
usually three small black ocelli, with white pupils. 
The markings of the upper wings nearly correspond 
on both sides ; but the hinder pair, beneath, are 
crossed behind the middle by a broad irregular band 
