HIPPARCHIA ARCANIUS. 
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five large and two small ocelli, forming a curved 
line, behind which there is a narrow stripe of silver. 
Taken near Wythyham, on the borders of Ash- 
down Forest, Sussex. 
Hipparchia Arcanius. 
Pap. Arcanius, Linn. — Hipp. Arcanius, Jermyn — Curtis, 
B. E. v. 205. • 
“ The superior wings are fulvous on both sides, 
with the terminal border of a dark brown above, 
but lighter beneath, and having opposite the apex 
a small ocellus with a white pupil and yellow iris. 
The surface of the inferior wings is obscure brown, 
with a small yellow spot placed at the anal angle, and 
surmounting a yellow crescent. Their under side is 
reddish, tinged with green at the base; the middle 
traversed obliquely by a white angular band, which 
bears at its commencement on its inner side a black 
ocellus, having a pupil of bright white, and on its 
outer side four or five similar ocelli, the two anterior of 
which, and the anal one, when present, are smaller 
than the others. There is, besides, a curved silvery 
line along the posterior border. 
“ The caterpillar is green, with dark dorsal lines 
and yellow lateral rays. It lives on the Melica ci- 
liata." * 
The only British example that has occurred was 
found in the same place as H. Hero. 
* Godart, Pap. de France, i. 174. 
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