MELANARGIA. 
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me that the same thing occurs in the larva of Galatea. This 
Melanargia lives on a large kind of grass very common in the 
neighbourhood of Cannes, and peculiar to dry and stony calcareous 
districts — the Brachypodmm pinnatuvi. The pupa is rather elongated, 
plump and smooth, yellowish in colour, and finely striped with 
dark brown,” 
VAEIETY. 
Ixora (ah.), Boisd. Ic. 27, 3, 4. — Differs from the type in the 
absence of the ocelli from the under side of the hind wings. 
6. — M. Pherusa, Boisd. Ic. 26, 4-6, i. p. 141; Dup, i. 45, 1, 2. 
Expands from 1-80 to 2-20 in. Greatly resembles the last 
above, especially in the markings of the fore wings, which are 
almost identical, though perhaps not quite so dark. The hind 
wings are lighter at the base than in Syllius, and the submarginal 
spots are smaller, with very faintly defined lightish centres. 
Under side : Fore wings as in Syllius, but lighter, the black 
markings finer, and not so distinctly marked with brown. Hind 
wings with the nervures dark brown, and only indistinctly marked 
with reddish ; submarginal spots indistinct, and only sometimes 
with blue centres. PL LVI., 3. 
Time of Appeaeance. — June. 
Habitat. — Sicily. 
VAEIETY. 
Plesaura, Bell. Ann. S. Fr. 1860, pi. 12, 1, 2. — An aberration 
corresponding to the form Ixora of Syllius — that is, wanting the 
ocelli, and sometimes entirely without the submarginal black spots 
above. 
Laeva. — Unknown, 
7. — M. Arge, Sulz. Abg. G. 1776, T. 16, 8, 9; Esp. 27, 1, 70, 1, 
111, 2; 0. i. 1, 251; Dup. i. 24, 5, 6. 
Amphiteite, Hiib. 194-5 (1799); Boisd. Ic, 27, 1, 2. 
Expands from 1-75 to 2-20 in. All the wings creamy white, 
black at the base, and with a wavy hind-marginal black band. 
This species differs from the last two in having fewer black 
