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LAEGE MEADOW BROWN. 



MEADOW BROWN. 



PLATE XIX. 



Hipparchia fanira, Ochsenheimer. Stephens. Leach. 



" " Curtis. Duncan. Westvvood. 



Papilio Janira, Linn.^us, (wa/«.) TuRTON. Stewart. 



" Jurtina, LiNN^us, [female.) Lewin. Donovan. 



" " Haworth. Harris. 



" Hyperantkus, Wilkes. Albin. 



Epirephih Hyperantkus, Hubner. 



This butterfly is also to be seen in abundance 



"In summer time, wheu leaves grow greene, 

 And blossoms bedecke the tree." 



It is one of our most plentiful species, and occurs in all parts of the 

 country. I well remember the extraordinary numbers in which it 

 appeared in the unusually hot and dry summer of the year 1826. 



It appears in June, and lasts till the end of August. 



The caterpillar feeds on various kinds of grasses, more especially on 

 the Poa prafcnsis. 



This insect varies in the expanse of its wings from one inch and a 

 half to two inches; the whole upper surface of the fore wings is 

 brown, with more or less of a fulvous tinge, with a faint shade of 

 bronze over it. Near the tip is a small black eye with a white dot 

 in its centre, surrounded by a ring of orange buff, sometimes more 

 widely, though indistinctly, extended. In some specimens there are two 

 white dots, and in others more. The hind wings are wholly brown. 



Underneath, the fore wings are orange-yellow brown, with a darker 

 border of the same ; the eye and eyelet shew through. The hind 

 wings are darker brown, with a broad waved bar at a little distance 



