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SATYRIDM. 
near the ai3ex. Hind wings with a snbinarginal row of fulvous 
spots, each enclosing a black one with a white centre. Under 
side: Fore wings as above, but paler, and the spots are somewhat 
larger. Hind wings brown, varied with fulvous and purplish red ; 
there are some faint submarginal light spots. PI. LXXIII., 2. 
Time of Appearance. — Throughout the summer, there being 
two principal broods in the year. 
Habitat. — Southern and South-western Europe, North Africa, 
and Syria. 
Larva. — Dull green, with yellowish white dorsal and lateral 
stripes. Feeds on Triticuin repens and other common grasses. 
Pupa. — Greenish, somewhat angular, with a double row of 
small dorsal tubercles. 
Obs. — The above is a description of the southern form of the 
species, which is doubtless the original Linnean typical form. In 
Northern and Central Europe the form Egerides, Stgr., about to be 
described, entirely replaces it ; but in some places the species 
exhibits seasonal dimorphism, giving the northern var. Egerides as 
the spring and typical Egeria as the summer brood. 
VARIETY. 
a. Egerides, Stgr. Cat. 1871, p. 30. Jd]geria, Esp. 7, 1 ; Hiib. 
181, 2; Fit. 403. Egeria imi JEgeria autorum anglicorum. — The 
size and shape of the type, but the ground colour is darker and the 
light spots smaller, and instead of being fulvous they are light 
straw-colour or yellowish white. The under side resembles that of 
Egeria, the fulvous parts being replaced by whitish yellow. 
PI. LXXIII., 3. 
Time of Appearance. — April, July, and August. 
Habitat. — Common throughout Northern (except the Polar 
region) and Central Europe, including the British Isles. (The 
Speckled Wood-butterfly.) It occurs as the spring brood in many 
localities in Central France, &c. ; also in the South-East of Europe. 
I have seen it stated that specimens exactly resembling British 
ones have been taken near Constantinople. 
