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its claims as a real native are questioned. Mr. Curtis, to whom it belongs, states that it “ was captured by 
Mr. Plastead, it is understood, on the borders of Ashdown Forest ;” but Mr. Stephens (Illust. Brit. Ent. Haust. 
4. 379) doubts its authenticity. It is an abundant species on the Continent, appearing in the months of June 
and July. 
The caterpillar is green, with a red mouth, a darker green line down the back, a pale-yellow line down each 
side, and another above the feet. It feeds upon Melica ciliata. 
A hybrid between C. Arcanius and C. Hero has been described and figured by Schummell (Beitrage z. 
Entomol. Schlesische Faun. pl. 9, f. 5), having the upper side of Arcanius, and the underside of Hero. It was 
found in 1809 near Gerlachsdorf. 

SPECIES 4.—CCENONYMPHA HERO. THE SILVER-BORDERED RINGLET BUTTERFLY. 
Plate xxii. fig. 3—4. 
Synonymes.— Papilio Hero, Linneus, Haworth Ent. Trans. (not | 
of Fabricius, nor of Donovan, who figures Davus under that name.) 
Hipparchia Hero, Ochsenheimer, Stephens, Curtis, Brit. Ent. pl. P. Melibeus, Ernst. 
205. 
Papiho Sabeus, Fabricius. 
This species measures about an inch and a half in the expanse of its wings, which are of a fulvous brown 
colour, the fore wings being paler along the fore edge, with an orange stripe close to the posterior margin, near 
to which are two small indistinct orange ocelli, with brown pupils ; the hind wings have also a narrow orange 
stripe near the outer margin, above which are four large black ocelli having minute whitish pupils, and sur- 
rounded by a broad orange ring. The fore wings beneath are coloured as on the upper side, except that there 
is a narrow silver stripe adjoining the orange sub-marginal one, and which is also continued through the hind 
wings, which have an irregular whitish bar rather beyond the middle, succeeded by orange, in which are seven 
ocelli of various size: the two nearest the anal angle being confluent and smallest ; the iris being black, with a 
white pupil, and surrounded by an orange circle. 
This is one of our rarest insects; a female taken by Mr. Plastead near Withyam, on the borders of 
Ashdown Forest, Sussex, and now in Mr. Curtis's collection, being the only specimen in British collections until 
recently, when it appears to have been again taken in Sussex; Mr. Stephens stating, in the Appendix to the 
Lepidopterous volumes of his Illustrations, that he had obtained a specimen from the neighbourhood of 
Lamberhurst. 
SPECIES 5.—CCENONYMPHA PAMPHILUS. THE SMALL HEATH BUTTERFLY. 
Plate xxii. fig. 1—2. 
Synonyars.—Papilio Pamphilus, Linneus. Lewin Papi. pl. 23, Hipparchia Pamphilus, Ochsenheimer, Leach, Stephens, Curtis ; 
fig. 3,4. Haworth, Stewart, Harris, Aurelian, pl. 21, fig. e—h. Duncan, Brit. Butt. pl. 26, fig. 3. 
De Geer Mém. 2, pl. 2, fig. 3. Papilio Nephele, Wiibner, Pap. 
This, which is one of the commonest of our British butterflies, varies in the expanse of its wings from 1+ to 
14 inches. The wings on the upper side are of a pale tawny or fulvous colour, with the entire margins brownish ; 
the anterior pair having an indistinct ocellus near the tip, sometimes accompanied by a still smaller one, or by 
one or more black spots. The hind wings have sometimes also an obsolete ocellus near the anal angle. On the 
under side the fore wings are fulvous, with the base and apex ashy, a rather large ocellus being placed near the 
tip, having a black iris and white pupil, and surrounded by whitish. The hind wings are brown at the base and 
ashy at the tips, with an abbreviated whitish band across the middle, beyond which are several minute, indistinct 
