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SMALL RINGLET. 



MOUNTAIN RINGLET. 



PLATE XX1\'. 



Hippairhia Cassiope, 

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Melampias Cassiope, 

 Papilio JE/hiops minor, 



" i\le!ampus, 



" I\Inemo}i, 

 Oreina Cassiope, 



ochsenheimer. stephens. 

 Curtis. Duncan. 



HUBNER. 

 ViLLARS. 

 ESPER. 



Haworth. 



Westwood. 



This is a rare species in this country, or even if eventually ])rovinsr 

 to be more plentiful than has hitherto been supposed, a very local 

 one, being only to be met with, so far as at present is known, on the 

 mountains of Cumberland and Westmoreland, from whence you look 

 down on the scenery, which, in even a more than ordinary manner, 

 gives ground for the exclamation that " God made the country, and 

 man made the town." 



The following are localities for it : — Rannoch, in Perthshire, 

 Helvellyn, Red Skrees, a mountain near Ambleside, and (jable Hill, 

 and Stye Head, between Wastvvater and Borrowdale. 



I'he earliest date of its appearance is about the 11th. of Juno, but 

 the latter end of that month is the proper time. The females are 

 later out than the males, and have been taken in .July and August. 



'fhe caterpillar feeds on the mat-grass, (Nardns strirfa.) 



The wings expand to the width of one inch and a quarter, or a 

 little over. They are of a very dark brown colour, and the fore wings 

 have a red bar near the outside, inteirujitnl by the nerves. \n this 

 bar are generally four small black dots with obscure pupils, but some 

 specimens have only three, or even only two eyes, while some are 

 without them altogether, and in others the bar itself is reduced to a 

 few red spots. 



