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angle, and have their inner margins brownish black. The female 
has the wings orange-brown, with a coppery lustre, and marked 
with numerous black spots. Under side : — Fore wings orange, 
with black spots. Hind wings light brown, with a row of white 
spots, forming an irregular band across the centre ; between this 
and the base are a few black spots ; along the hind margin is an 
orange band. PI. XIX., 1. 
Times of Appearance. — May and August. 
Habitat. — The whole of Europe (except Britain, the southern 
part of Spain and Portugal, and South Russia). It also inhabits 
Asia Minor and a considerable part of Siberia. Some authors 
describe it as having been formerly taken in Britain, but no 
authentic British specimens exist. It is generally found in woods 
and meadows. 
Larva downy, of a dull green colour; every segment is 
streaked laterally with dark green, and on the dorsal aspect there 
is a line of pale yellow. It feeds on Solidago Vinjaurea and various 
species of Ruiiiex in June and September. 
VARIETIES. 
a. Oranula, Err. Beitr. v. 455. A Boreal form of the insect 
occurring in Lapland ; it differs from the type in being smaller. 
h. Miegii, Vogel, 1857, n. Schm. Zeit. Ges. Isis, p. 201, t. vi. 
In this variety the male is spotted above, and the female is paler in 
colour than in the type. 
Habitat. — Spain and the Pyrenees ; Armenia. 
c. Zermattensis (female), Fallou, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1865, 
p. 101, pi. 2, 3. This variety of the female, which is found at 
Zermatt and other places in Switzerland, is very dark in appear- 
ance, the ground colour of the wings being dark brown, instead of 
orange, as in the type. 
2. P. Ottomanus, Lefebrve, Guerin. Mag. 1830, p. 19 ; Boisd. 
Ic. 10, 4, 5; Dup. i. 9, 1, 2; H.-S. 236-9. — Legeri, 
Frr. Beitr. 133, i., iii. 
Expands 1 to 1-25 in. The male has all the wings of a most 
brilliant copper-colour. The fore wings have narrow discoidal spot, 
