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fulvous [tawny], with two black blind eyes, and a third very 

 small one, which is rather indistinct ; beneath with a white 

 stripe, and with two eyes pupilled with white. Hind-wings 

 above darker, with five or six blind eyes ; beneath grey, with 

 an interrupted white stripe, and six black eyes with white 

 pupils, the last double. Taken at Hamburg." 



We have thought it best to give a full abstract both of Von 



Marsh Ringlet {Ccchonympha tiphon). 



Rottenburg's and of Fabricius' descriptions, because the works 

 in which they were published are not very accessible, and 

 there has been some difference of opinion as to whether we 

 have more than one allied species in Britain, or not. These 

 Butterflies are very variable, and the pale form, the true C. 

 tiphon, which is more of a mountain insect with us than C. 

 polydama, is more frequently met with in Scotland and Ireland 

 than in England. It appears in July. In the extreme north 

 of Europe we meet with the variety C. isis (Thunb.), which is 

 still paler, with the eyes almost wholly wanting. Several varie- 

 ties are represented in our woodcuts. 



