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LEAST MEADOW BEOWN. 



SMALL HEATH. 



PLATE XXI. 



Hipparchia pamphilus, Ochsenheimer. Leach. 



" Stephens. Curtis. Duncan. 



Papilio pamphilus, Linn^us. Lewin. De Geer. 



" " Haworth. Stewart. Harris. 



" Nephele, Hubner. 



CiBiionympba pamphilus, Westwood. 



This is one ot' our commonest species, being abundant in almost all 

 parts of the country in the summer time, "when the face of all nature 

 looks pleasant and gay." It is frequent on heaths, as also in meadows 

 and various other situations; it is, however, scarce in the neighbour- 

 hood of Fahnouth, as W. P. Cocks, Esq. has informed me. Common 

 at Brighton, Anstey, and Bisterne. 



There are two broods, whereof the tirst appears the end of May and 

 beginning of June, and the second in August and September, the last 

 continuing till the middle of October. 



The caterpillar is found in the beginning of May and August. 



It feeds on the Gynosurus cristatus, or crested dog's-tail grass. 



In this insect the wings expand to the width of from a little more 

 than an inch to nearly an inch and a half. The fore wings are of a 

 pale fulvous or tawny yellow colour, and the margins brownish, these 

 being darker and more decided in the male than in the female. There 

 is an indistinct eye near the tip, sometimes accompanied by a still 

 smaller one, or by one or more black dots. The hind wings are of 

 the same colour as the upper ones, but with a grey mark irregularly 

 margined over their inner half, and with sometimes an obsolete eye 

 near their lower corner. 



Underneath, the fore wings are fulvous; their base, tip, and border, 

 grey, and near the tip is a distinct eye — black with a white pupil, 



