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LARGE HEATH. 



Hipparchia Tithonus. 

 PLATE XXIII. FIGS. 2. & 3. 



Pap. Tithonus, Linn. Pap. Pilosellae, Fair. Donovan 

 xii, pi. 405 The Gate Keeper, Harris'' Aurel., pi. 44. 



UPPER wings ochre-red, or reddish-yellow, with 

 ihe base brown, and the anterior and outer sides 

 widely margined with dark brown. On the outer 

 anterior angle of the reddish-yellow portion o f the 

 wing there is a pretty large round ocellated spot of 

 black, with two minute white points in the centre. 

 The hinder wings are likewise brown, with a large 

 reddish -yellow mark in the centre, which bears a 

 minute ocellus on the side nearest the anal angle. 

 On the under side, the upper wings are coloured as 

 above, but the hinder pair are greyish-brown, with 

 a very irregular cross band of light grey behind the 

 middle, in which there are usually four minute white 

 points approximating in pairs, and surrounded by a 

 brown cloud. The male is considerably smaller 

 than the female, more deeply coloured, and has a 

 brown cloud in the middle of the coloured portion 

 of the fore wings. 



