THE BBOWNS AND HEATHS 



LSI 



The chrysalis is pale brown, spotted and striped witli a darker 

 hade of the same colour. 



The MarsJi Ringlet {Ccenonymi^lia Ttjplwn) 



The upper surface of this buttertlv is shown in the first fip^ii'e 

 of Plate V'l, and the under. side in tlie accompanyin<i; woodcut; 

 but it must be reniemliered that the species is a very variable one. 

 so much so that it is almost impossible to give anything like a short 

 and, at the same time, a satisfactory description. The female may 

 usually be distinguished by a pale patch across the middle of the fore 

 wings ; and the eye spots of the same wings, always more or less 

 indistinct when present, are sometimes entirely wanting. The 

 markings of the under side are even more variable, the transverse 

 Ijars and the eye spots being often 

 particularly conspicuous, and at 

 other times hardly discernible. 



This is generally spoken of as a 

 northerner, its chief localities being 

 in the mountainous parts of Scot- 

 land and the elevated districts of 

 the north of England, but in Ire- 

 land it extends to the southern 

 ranges. Its haiints are elevated 

 moors and marshy heaths, where 



its food plant — the beak-rush {lihijncospora alha)— aho\\\'\(\.s, and it 

 is on the wing from the end of June to August or September. 



The caterpillar is green, with five longitudinal stripes — one dark 

 one, bordered with yellow, tlown the middle of the back, and two 

 pale yellow ones on each side. It is a hybernator, and is fall grown 

 about the end of May, when it suspends itself by the hindmost 

 claspers to a silken carpet, and clianges to a green chr^'salis with 

 pale brown wing cases. 



82.— The Maesh Rinolet— 

 Under Side. 



The Small Heath (Cfenomjmpha Pa)ii.pJiili(fi) 



The last member of the family Satyrida is the well-known Small 

 Heath, that maybe seen almost all over the British Isles on heaths, 

 meadows and moors, from May to September. 



The upper surface of this butterfly (Plate VI, fig. 2) is a tawny 

 yellow, with a dark brown border, and a spot of the same dark tint 



