PARARGE. 
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several dark brown zigzag lines running across from the costa to 
the inner margin, and with a siibmarginal row of black spots with 
white centres, and surrounded by yellow rings. The female is 
paler in colour than the male, and has both the central and hind- 
marginal bands narrower; it is also somewhat larger. PI. LXXII., 5. 
Time of Appeaeance. — In this country there seems to be two 
or three broods in the season, the first appearance being at the end 
of April ; in southern countries it is on the wing throughout the 
year. 
Habitat. — The whole of Europe, except the Polar regions. 
North Africa, Asia Minor, and Armenia ; generally distributed over 
the British Isles. (The Wall-butterfly.) 
Lakva. — Pubescent, apple-green, with five longitudinal lines 
of dark green, and yellow stigniatal line ; head rounded, green, 
with fine black hairs ; the thoracic legs brown, posterior pairs 
green. On grasses. 
Pupa. — Green or greenish black, slightly angulated, with two 
dorsal rows of yellow or white tubercles. Suspended. 
VARIETIES. 
a. Var. Lyssa, Boisd. Ic. 44, 4, 5, i. p. 222 ; H. G. 914-17. — 
Differs from the type in the ground colour of the hind wings, 
which, instead of being brownish grey, is bluish or ashy grey ; 
this difference in colour is well marked. 
Habitat. — Dalmatia, the Balkans, and Asia Minor. 
b. Var. Tigelius, Bon. Descr. T. i. 2 (1824); Boisd. Ic. 45, 1-3; 
Dup. i. 30, 5-7; Err. B. 68, 1. Paramegcera, Hub. 842-4; Butl. 
Cat. 124 {nomen vetiistius?). — Smaller and lighter than the type. In 
the female the dark bands that enclose the submarginal spots in 
Meqcera are wanting ; the spots themselves have bluish centres. 
PI. LXXII., 6. 
Habitat. — Corsica and Sardinia. 
6. — P. Egeria, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. 473; xii. 771. 
Meone, Esp. 95, 1 (1789); Hub. 179-80; 0. i. 1, 240. 
Expands from 1-70 to 2 in. Wings dark brown. Fore wings 
spotted with fulvous, and with a small white-centred black spot 
