GEAYLING -MEADOW BEOWN. lOl 



Exeter, Plymouth, Falmouth, Truro, Bristol, Dorset- 

 Bliire, Salisbury Plain, "Wincliester, "Worcester, New 

 market, Gamlingay, Isle of Arran, Arthur's Seat (Edin- 

 burgh), Durham, Darlington, Glasgow, Lake District. 



THE MEADOW BROWN BUTTERFLY. 

 (Hipparchia Janira.) 



(Plate VI. fig. 1, Male; la, Female.) 



PERHAPS of all our butterflies this is the least attrac- 

 tive, being too common to excite interest from its rarity 

 or difficulty of attainment^ as other dingy butterflies do, 

 and too plain and homely to win regard, in spite of its 

 commonness, as the beautiful " Small Tortoise-shell " 

 and the Common Blues do. 



This is the sober brown insect that keeps up a con- 

 stant fluttering, in sunshine and gloom, over the dry 

 pasture land and barren hill-side; and perhaps it ought 

 to find favour in our eyes, from this very fact of keeping 

 np a cheerful spirit under circumstances the most unfa- 

 vourable to butterfly enjoyment in general. 



The colouring of the male, on the upper side, may be 

 described as a sooty brown, rather lighter about tho 

 eye-spot on the front wing. 



