SMALL RINGLET. 



PLATE XXIV. 



TFifparcliin Cussioj)e, Ochsenhkimer. Stephens. 



"■ Curtis. Duncan. 



Melampias Cassiopc, Hubxer. 



JPapilio ^tliiryps minof, Villars. 



Papilio Melampus, Esper. 



Papllio Mnemon, HAWoitTH. 



Orema Cassiope, Westwood. 



This is a rare species in this country, or even if eventually 

 proving to be more plentiful than has hitherto been supposed, 

 a very local one, being only to be met with, so far as at present 

 is known, on the mountains of Cumberland and Westmoreland, 

 from whence you look down on the scenery, which, in even a 

 more than ordinary manner, gives ground for the exclamation 

 that "God made the country, and man made the town." 



The following are localities for it: — Red Skrees, a mountain 

 near x^mbleside, and Gable Hill, and Stye Head, between 

 Wastwater and Borrowdale. 



The earliest date of its appearance is about the 11th. of June, 

 but the latter end of that month is the proper time. The 

 females are later out than the males, and have been taken in 

 August. 



The wings expand to the Avidth of one inch and a quarter, 

 or a little over. They are of a very dark broAvn colour, and the 

 fore wings have a red bar near the outside, interrupted by 

 the nerves. In this bar are generally four small black dots 

 with obscure pupils, but some specimens have only three, or even 

 only two eyes, while some are without them altogether, and in 

 others the bar itself is reduced to a few red spots. 



