206 MARSH RINGLET BUTTERFLY. 



on a line with it. Underneath, the primary wings are 

 greenish-brown at the base, rather bright yellowish* 

 brown in the middle, and greyish at the apex, mark- 

 ed at some distance from the hinder margin with an 

 abbreviated white bar, beyond which are generally 

 two remote ocelli, with a minute silver-white pupil 

 and black iris, encircled by a whitish ring ; one of 

 these ocelli sometimes obsolete. The basal half of 

 the hinder wings is brown, with long greenish hairs \ 

 beyond this there is a very irregular whitish band, 

 sometimes interrupted, tbe space beyond which is 

 greyish-brown (often with a fulvous cloud in the fe- 

 male near the middle), and five or six ocelli, some of 

 them usually small and indistinct, and the anterior 

 one sometimes placed in the white band. The an- 

 tennse are brown above, ringed with white, the club 

 tawny. 



Caterpillar and chrysalis dark green, the former 

 with a dark line along the back. 



This insect, which may ultimately prove to be 

 only a variety of the preceding one, occurs not un- 

 frequently on marshy heaths in the months of July 

 and August. Mr Wailes finds it frequently in such 

 situations near Newcastle: it also occurs near York, 

 in North Wales, &c. It was seen in great abun- 

 dance last summer in Sutherlandshire, as well as in 

 others of the more northern counties of Scotland , 

 and we have received it from Argyll and Perth- 

 shire. 





