The Brownies 



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yellow blotch of color are two eye-spots with blue 

 centres. The hind-wing is more or less scalloped 

 and the under side of the wings is of light-brown 

 color, streaked with dark brown and ornamented 

 with eye-spots or nature's beauty spots on the 

 females, but not always on the males. Up Xorth 

 these butterflies will measure two and one-half 

 inches across the wings and a half an inch more for 

 the South. 



boisditv^al's bkownies 



These butterflies (Fig. 164) are a pale yellow- 

 ish brown. Both sides of the front wings have a 

 row composed of four eye-marks. The eye-spots 

 are black with white 

 centres. On the 

 hind wings there 

 eye-spots, one of them on 

 the upper edge of each 

 wing and live of them 

 close together on the 

 lower edge of each wing. It is not unusual to find 

 some of these butterflies with blind eye-spots upon 

 the upper side of the wings — that is, eye-spots lack- 

 ing the white centres. 



The butterfly spreads two inches and sometimes 

 more. It may be found in July among the moun- 



