CCENONYMPHA. 



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may have a small one attached to it below. On the upper 

 surface the eye-spots are generally inconspicuous (often 

 invisible, especially in the male), the yellow bordering 

 being usually faint, and the white centre absent from 

 most of the spots. 



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Female. 

 EPINEPHELE HYPERANTHES 



Ccenonympha, Hub.; Chortobius, Guenee. 



Ccenonympha, the last genus of the Ringlet group, is 

 represented in Britain by two species, C. typhon and 

 C. pamphilus, which are probably the least conspicuous 

 for beauty among the small company of our butterflies, 

 though the former sometimes rises from this mediocrity 

 when it chances to appear with well-developed eye-spots 



