LARGE HEATH KINGLET. 103 



Underneath, there is a pretty arrangement of sub- 

 dued colouring ; that of the front wings nearly resem- 

 bling the upper side ; the lower wings clouded and 

 spotted with russet-brown on a paler brown ground, the 

 dark rounded brown spots having white centres; but 

 there are no black eye-spots on the hind wings. 



The caterpillar is greenish-grey, with reddish head 

 and two pale lines on each side and a dark one down 

 the back. 



The butterfly, a feeble flier and easily captured, ap- 

 pears in July and August ; its favourite resorts being 

 heaths, dry fields, and lanes. 



It is sometimes called the Small Meadow Brown, 

 and the Gate-keeper. 



It 



THE RINGLET BUTTERFLY. 



{Hipparchia Hyperanihus.) (Plate VI. fig. 3, Female.) 



This is one of those butterflies in which Nature, depart- 

 ing from her accustomed plan, has reserved the chief 

 adornment of the wings for the under surface, leaving 

 the upper comparatively plain and unattractive. 



In both sexes the wings, above, are of a deep sepia 

 brown, surrounded by a greyish white fringe, and bear- 

 ing several black spots in paler rings, which rings are 



