42 SMALL MEADOW BROWN. 



of brown. Near the tip is a large black eye, in which are two small 

 white dots, and a broad brown patch, or rather bar, runs obliquely 

 across the middle of these wings, parallel to the border at the outside 

 edge. The hind wings have a small portion apparent in the centre of 

 the same ground colour as that of the fore ones, but all the remainder 

 is taken up with a dark brown border, and the same colour spread 

 over the base. 



Underneath, the fore wings are coloured as above, but the brown 

 patch is wanting. The hind wings are of a golden brown hue at the 

 base and the margin, with an irregular waved greyish buff band 

 running across the middle, with a brown patch near the outer angle, 

 in which are two small eyes, and another patch and eye towards the 

 hind angle, sometimes accompanied by one or two or more small 

 satellite eyes, which vary in size as well as in number. 



The female is without the bar which crosses the upper side of the 

 fore wings in the male. 



The caterpillar is of a greenish colour, and has a reddish line on 

 each side, and a brownish head. 



The figures are from specimens in my own collection. 



