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the higher eminences, but preferring the valleys, especially 

 where somewhat woocied and with an abundance of tall coarse 

 grass ; never found higher than about eight hundred feet 

 above the sea level, and in very much favoured localities 

 descending as low as the sea-level. Dr. F. Buchanan White 

 says : " It is in my experience a very local species. lu some 

 places where it occurs, and where there are plenty of suitable 

 places, it is confined to very limited spots, though in them 

 abundant. I have not seen it strictly in the lowlands nor 

 upon the hills themselves, but in the Highland valleys. It 

 frequents, usually, spots which are damp, yet not exactly 

 marshy, and is often associated with the blue moor-grass 

 {ilulinia ccerulca). Rather open spaces in woods are favourite 

 spots, and these are often ' alive ' with the butterflies flitting 

 about in an apparently aimless way. In Glen Tilt one day 

 in August 1877, turn whichever way one would, there was 

 always to be seen a great multitude flitting about over the 

 grass. The monotony of seeing these brown butterflies, 

 zigzagging in every direction, became almost like a dreadful 

 nightmare, and caused a feeling of dizziness which I can still 

 recall to mind." 



Mr. J. E. liobson says : " Where it does occur, it is in 

 large numbers. It is common throughout Castle Eden Dene 

 and the adjoining woods, yet is so local that I know two 

 woods divided by a road, in one of which it may be taken 

 by hundreds, and in the other there are none at all." Mr. 

 Goss says: "Plentiful in woods, grassy places on hill- 

 sides and in quarries, and has a flight much like that of 

 Melanarijiu (falatlicd ;'' while Mr. A. H. Clarke com- 

 pares its flight when in woods to that of EpinepMle Hi/pcr- 

 antlnis, but when upon open moors to that of Sutyrus 

 Seviele. 



In Scotland it is found in many localities — in Strathglass, 

 Inverness-shire, the most universally distributed butterfly, 

 swarming in all the marshy places in the woods, and even 

 coming occasionally into the gardens ; at Braemar, common 



