110 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



whitish band across the centre, and outside of this a 

 row of about six clearly denned black eye-spots with 

 white centres, situated each in a pale ochreous ring. 



The butterfly, which appears in June and July, is 

 exclusively met with in the North (including North 

 Wales), and inhabits the moors and marshy heaths, or 

 " mosses," in a great many localities in Scotland and 

 the northern counties. The following are among those 

 recorded : — 



Scotland. — Shetland Isles ; Isle of Arran ; Pent- 

 land Hills ; Ben Nevis ; Ben Lomond, near Oban ; 

 Ben More. 



England. — Lake District of Cumberland ; Yorkshire ; 

 Beverley ; Cottingham ; Hatfield Chase ; Thorne Moor ; 

 White Moss, TrafFord Moss, Chat Moss, near Man- 

 chester; Chartly Park, near Uttoxeter; Delmere 

 Forest, Cheshire; between Stockport and Ashton; 

 near Cromer, in Norfolk ; near Glandford Brigg, Lin- 

 colnshire. 



Ireland. — Dor,egal mountains. 



North Wales. — Between Bala and Ffestiniog. 



Ashdown Forest, in Sussex, has been given as a 

 locality, on doubtful authority, certainly; but from 

 what I have seen and know of that district and its 

 productions, I think it is not at all impossible that 

 Davus may be really found there. We have there, at 

 any rate, the heath-covered, yet swampy, moorlands 

 that the insect loves, and also in plenty the plants one 

 finds most abundant in the northern moorlands ; such 



