EPINEPHELE. 



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THE LARGE HEATH BUTTERFLY. EPINEPHELE TITHONUS. 

 {Plate XXXI., Figs. 4, 5.) 

 Papilio tithonus, Linn., Mant. Plant, p. 537 (m 1 )- 

 Papilio phcedm, Esper, Schmett., i., pt. 1, p. 120, pi. 9, fig. 1, 



p. 323, pi. 28, fig. 3 (i777). 

 Hipparchia tithonus, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. Haust, i., p. 58 



(1828) ; Buckler, Larva? of Brit. Butterflies and Moths, 



p. 167, pi. 5, fig. 2 (1SS6). 

 Epinephek tithonus, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 40, 



pi. 13, fig. 5 (1878); Lang, Butterflies of Europe, p. 310, 



pi. 74, fig. 2 (1884); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl., i., p. 245, 



pi. 34 (1893). 



A smaller insect than the Meadow Brown Butterfly, mea- 

 suring only an inch and a quarter or an inch and a half across 



The Large Heath {Epinephele tithonus). Under side of Male. 



the wings, the female being usually much larger than the male. 

 The fore-wings are fulvous, except the borders, and are marked 

 with a conspicuous black eye with two white pupils ; the hind- 

 wings are brown, with a large sub-marginal fulvous band or 

 blotch. In the male the fulvous portion of the wings is darker 

 than in the female, and the lower part is marked by a large 

 brown blotch running up into it. On the under side the fore- 

 wings are coloured nearly as above; the hind-wings are greyish- 

 brown, with an irregular greyish band beyond the middle, 

 marked with three or four white dots in reddish-brown rings. 



