PARARGE. 
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such as P. Egeria and Achine, are found in woods, generally 
preferring rather damp and shady places. Only two species occur 
in the British Islands. 
1. — P. Roxelana, Or. Pap. Exot. PL 161, c. f. (1782); Fab. Ent. 
Syst. 227 ; 0. i. 1, 217 ; Hiih. 680-3 ; Boisd. Icon. 43, 
1-3 ; Bup. i. 30, 1-4 ; Err. B. 109, 2. 
Expands from 1*80 to 2-20 in. The male has the fore wings 
dull brown, with an irregular patch of dull fulvous in the centre ; 
near the apex is a small black spot. Hind wings dull brown, with a 
submarginal row of yellow rings, usually three in number; the 
neuration is rather darker than the rest of the wing, the hind 
margin is dentate. Under side : Fore wings fulvous, costa, apex 
and hind margin brown, the apical spot has a yellow ring. Hind 
w’ings brown, with two narrow wavy reddish lines running across 
the centre ; there is a narrow wavy whitish band edged with brown 
running close to the hind margin, and a submarginal row of black 
spots surrounded by yellow rings, and having white centres ; two 
of these are placed close together near the costa ; the next two are 
very much smaller, and pushed out of their proper places, as 
it were, by a triangular white blotch ; then come three more, that 
nearest the anal angle containing two white dots. Female usually 
larger than the male : fore wings more suffused with fulvous, the 
costa and hind margins broadly dark brown ; there is a yellowish 
white blotch nearly in the centre of the costa, and outside this two 
more, having the black apical spot between them ; the neuration is 
lined with dark brown. Hind wings as in the male, but with a 
marginal dark line. Under side as in the male, except that the 
fore wings have white costal blotches. The marginal fringes in 
both sexes are white and brown. PI. LXXI., 2. 
Times of Appeakance. — June and July. 
Habitat. — South Eastern Hungary, Turkey, and Asia Minor. 
Laeva. — Unknown. 
Obs. — The neuration of the fore wings of this species is 
exceptional in appearance, owing to the thick black scales which 
follow the course of the median, and to the curve taken by the 
submedian, 
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