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LEAST MEADOW BROWN. 



SMALL HEATH. 



PLATE XXI. 



Hipparcliia Famphilus, Ochsenheimer. Leach. 



'• " Stephens. Curtis. Duncan. 



Papilio Pamphilus, Linn.eus. Lewin. De Geer. 



" " Haworth. Stewart. Harris. 



Papilio JVephek, Hurner. 



Ccenonympha Pamphilus, Westwood. 



This is one of our commonest species, being abundant in 

 almost all parts of the country in the summer time, "when 

 the fiice of all nature looks pleasant and gay." It is frequent 

 on heaths, as also in meadows and various other situations; it 

 is, however, scarce in the neighbourhood of Falmouth, as W. 

 P. Cocks, Esq. has informed me. 



There are two broods, whereof the first appears the beginning 

 of June, and the second in September. 



The caterpillar is found in the beginning of May and August. 



It feeds on the Cynosurus cristatus, or crested dog's-tail grass. 



In this insect the wings expand to the width of from a 

 little more than an inch to nearly an inch and a half. The 

 fore wings are of a pale fulvous or tawny yellow colour, and 

 the margins brownish, these being darker and more decided 

 in the male than in the female. There is an indistinct eye 

 near the tip, sometimes accompanied by a still smaller one, or 

 by one or more black dots. The hind wings are of the same 

 colour as the upper ones, but with a grey mark irregularly 

 margined over their inner half, and Avith sometimes an obsolete 

 eye near their lower corner. 



