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SATYRIDM. 
1. — S. Hermione, L., M. L. U. p. 281 (1764); Schiff. S. V. 
p. 169; Sclm. N. Mag. p. 471 ; Hub. 122-4; 0. i, 1, 
173 ; Esp. 70, 4. 
Hermione major, Esp. 8, 3. 
Expands from 2-25 to 2-65 in. The male has the wings dark 
brown, with a slight reddish tinge ; fore wings with a brownish 
grey submarginal band, sometimes divided into streaks by the 
nervules, which are broadly marked with dark brown ; near the 
apex is a broad black spot with a white centre, and another 
is situate between the second and third median nervules ; hind 
wings with a dull white submarginal band, the inner edge of which 
is more clearly defined than the outer ; there is a small white- 
centred spot near the hind margin, between the second and third 
median nervules. Female larger and more strongly marked than 
the male, the submarginal band of the fore wings being yellowish 
white, darker towards the apex ; the hind wings have the band 
pure white, or sometimes with a slight bluish or violet tinge ; 
there is a row of black lunules between this and the hind margin. 
The fringes in both sexes are black and white. Under side : Fore 
wings brown, shot with greenish lironze, with some darker markings 
near the costa, mottled with grey at the apex ; the submarginal 
band yellowish white in both sexes, dentated along the internal 
margin, and with a white-pupilled ocellus near the apex ; hind 
wings grey, mottled with black, with two narrow black central 
bands, and a broad white submarginal band, speckled with brown, 
and suffused along its hind-marginal border ; the white-pupilled 
spot as above. PI. LXVI., 1. 
Times of Appearance.— July and August. 
Habitat. — Kocky woods iu Central and Southern France (it is 
taken at Fontainebleau and round Paris) ; Glermany and Switzer- 
land (especially in the rocky woods by the sides of lakes) ; South 
Europe generally (excepting the central and southern parts of the 
Peninsula) ; and Asia Minor. 
Larva. — lleddish grey, with two dorsal streaks placed close 
together, and of a lighter grey than the ground colour; lateral 
streaks of a similar colour, bordered with black and white. It is 
