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shade of greenish grey or greenish brown, but the marginal 

 portion is often nearly white. On the heaths of the north of 

 Ireland, and in the far west at Killarney, it has the general 

 character of the mountain form, agreeing in the colour of the 

 underside, and in the indistinctness of the spots above and 

 below, but is more tinged with tawny above, though the 

 margins are sometimes pale or tinged with ashy ; with these 

 are others in which the underside of the hind wings is dusted 

 with golden brown or reddish and intermediate shades, and 

 the upper side becomes of a brownish fulvous or tawny, while 

 the spots of the under side are, variably, more distinct, and 

 they become slightly more noticeable above. These darker 

 forms lead to those which belong more particularly to boggy 

 heaths and " mosses." These (known as i-ar. Tjiphoii) are found 

 mainly in the north of England and the south of Scotland, 

 but their head-quarters seem to be in Lancashire and the 

 adjacent counties. Delamere Forest furnishes a very pretty 

 race of a bright tawny or orange brown, shaded upon the 

 hind wings with grey brown ; having in many cases the 

 perpendicular bar of the underside of the fore wings visible 

 on the upper side, as a delicate paler shade ; a second ocellated 

 spot on the fore wings beneath, near the anal angle, some- 

 times visible also on the upper side ; and on the hind wings 

 a full row of six distinct and well-marked, yellow ringed, 

 black spots on the under side, four of which are usually visible 

 above. In these, the dark clouding of the underside of the 

 hind wings has lost all tinge of ashy or gi-eenish, but is 

 strongly dusted over with reddish, the white bar being very 

 sharply defined. A still more beautiful form (perhaps V. 

 Philoxenus, Esp. Rothleihii Newm.) is found in the " mosses " 

 of the JIanchester district — darker tawny, suffused with rich 

 olive brown, still darker on the nervures, showing the addi- 

 tional spot in the fore wings distinctly both above and below, 

 with sometimes a third, and even a fourth faintly indicated, so 

 as to form a row on the fore wings, while the series on the 

 hind wings is very strongly marked, of large size, and great 



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