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LARGE HEATH. 



Hipparchia Tithonus. 



PLATE XXIII. Figs. % & 3. 



Pap. Tithonus, Linn Pap. Pilosella\ Fair — Donovan 



xii. pi. 405 — The Gate Keeper, Harris'' AareL, pi. 44. 



Upper wings ochre-red, or reddish -yellow, with 

 (he base hrown, and the anterior and outer sides 

 widely margined with dark brown. On the outer 

 anterior angle of the reHdish-yellow portion o e the 

 wing there is a pretty large round ocellated spot of 

 black, with two minute white points in the rent re. 

 The hinder wings arp likewise brown, with a large 

 reddish -yellow mark in the centre, which hears a 

 minute ocellus on the side nearest the anal angle. 

 On the under side, the upper wings are coloured as 

 above, but the hinder pair are greyish-brown, with 

 a very irregular cross band of ligbt grey behind the 

 middle, in whicb there are usually four minute white 

 points approximating in pairs, and surrounded by a 

 brown cloud. The male is considerably smaller 

 than the female, more deeply coloured, and has a 

 brown cloud in the middle of tbe coloured portion 

 of the fore wings. 



