GRAYLING MEADOW BROWN. 10 i 



Exeter, Plymouth, Falmouth, Truro, Bristol, Dorset- 

 Bhire, Salisbury Plain, "Winchester, Worcester, New. 

 market, Gamlingay, Isle of Arran, Arthur's Seat (Edin« 

 burgh), Durham, Darlington, Glasgow, Lake District. 



THE MEADOW BROWN BUTTERFLY. 

 (Hipparchia Janira.) 



(Plate VI. fig. 1, Male; la, Female.) 



1 j erhaps of all our butterflies this is the least attrac- 

 tive, being too common to excite interest from its rarity 

 or difficulty of attainment, as other clingy butterflies do, 

 aud too plain and homely to win regard, in spite of its 

 commonness, as the beautiful " Small Tortoise-shell " 

 and the Common Blues do. 



This is the sober brown insect that keeps up a con- 

 stant fluttering, in sunshine and gloom, over the dry 

 pasture land and barren hill-side ; and perhaps it ought 

 to find favour in our eyes, from this very fact of keeping 

 np a cheerful spirit under circumstances the most unfa- 

 vourable to butterfly enjoyment in general. 



The colouring of the male, on the upper side, may bo 

 described as a sooty brown, rather lighter about tho 

 eye-spot on the front wing. 



