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56 SCOTCH ARGUS.
uniform dark bronzed brown colour, the fore wings having a
dark orange-red patch near the tip, wider in its fore than its hind
part, which two are sometimes divided by a constriction in the
middle of the patch. In the upper part of this patch are two
black eyes, each with a white speck in its centre: in the hinder
part of the patch is one similar eye, but smaller in size, and
occasionally it is obliterated. In some specimens there are as
many as five eyes.
The hind wings, also of the same dark bronzed brown, have
a waved or indented bar, or united series of round marks of
dark orange-red following the outer margin, a little distance
within it, and in it are generally three small black eyes with
white pupils, and a black dot in their outer part. In some
specimens there are only two eyes. The fringe of all the
wings is brownish, but darker in the male than in the female.
Underneath, the fore wings are of much the same general
colour as on the upper side, the brown bar shewing through
as above, but of a more yellow tinge, and the eyes in it simi­
larly appearing. The hind wings have a tint of grey with the
brown at the base, which is succeeded by a broad waved brown
bar of the general colour of the wings, this, by another grey
wave of the colour of the base, in which are sometimes a few
rudimentary eyes, but in other specimens it is quite plain, and
the margin of the wing again is brown. The colour of these
bars varies very considerably in the males and females, and also
according to the locality in which the insect is found.
The caterpillar is described as being light green, with brown
and white longitudinal stripes, and the head reddish.
The eggs are said to be of a wdiitish colour, speckled with
brown.
This species varies much.
The figures are taken from specimens in my own cabinet.