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SATYRIDAE 
colouring, from bright grass-green to deep black. The normal 
colour is green of more or less purity. The pupal stage varies 
according to the broods ; in the summer it averages about 
14 days, and about seven months in the case of those that 
pass the winter as pupae. 
Imago. The sexual difference is very marked. The average 
wing expanse of the male is 44 mm.; female, 46 mm. 
Male . — -The ground colour is bright orange-fulvous. The fore 
wing has a transverse, curved bronze-brown band of andro- 
conial scales extending from the costa to the middle of the 
inner margin ; crossing the cell are three brown bars ; the 
third at the end of the cell passes through the band and curves 
round to the anal angle. Near the apex is a conspicuous 
white-pupilled black spot and a broad outer marginal band. 
The hind wing has the basal half clouded with golden-brown 
bordered with a waved dark brown line, followed by a smoky- 
brown bar, and a sub-marginal series of white-pupilled black 
spots, each encircled by the fulvous ground colour ; the outer 
margin similar to that of the fore wing. The neuration is 
brown. The under side of the fore wing is without the trans¬ 
verse band, otherwise it is similar to the upper side, but paler 
in colour; the ocellated spot is encircled with a brown ring ; 
between this and the apex is a very small ocellus. The under 
side of the hind wing is pearl-grey minutely speckled with 
brown, tinted with ochreous and intersected by fine zigzag 
brown lines. There is a sub-marginal series of seven ocelli 
encircled by two brown rings, excepting the pair at the anal 
angle, which are both enclosed by a single ring. Female .— 
This is larger than the male, and the outer margins of the 
wings are more rounded ; the ground colour is lighter and 
the fore wing has no androconial scale band. Otherwise the 
sexes are similar. 
Life of Imago. Like other members of this genus, the Wall 
lives for about twenty days. 
Aberration. This species is subject to some aberration. 
This occurs chiefly in the ocellus; in some specimens it is double, 
in others very large ; but very rarely it is absent, while in 
some there are additional ocellated spots. Occasionally the 
space between the central transverse bands on the fore wing 
is wholly suffused with brown, producing a broad median 
