110 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, 



whitish band across the centre, and outside of this 3 

 row of about six clearly defined black eye-spots with 

 white centres, situated each in a pale ochreous ring. 



The butterfly, which appears in June and July, is 

 exclusively met with in the North (including North 

 Wales), and inhabits the moors and marshy heaths, or 

 "mosses," in a great many localities in Scotland and 

 the northern counties. The following are among those 

 recorded : 



SCOTLAND. Shetland Isles; Isle of Arran; Pent- 

 land Hills ; Ben Nevis ; Ben Lomond, near Oban ; 

 Ben More. 



ENGLAND. Lake District of Cumberland ; Yorkshire ; 

 Beverley ; Cottingham ; Hatfield Chase ; Thome Moor ; 

 White Moss, Trafford Moss, Chat Moss, near Man- 

 chester; Chartly Park, near TJttoxeter; Delmere 

 Forest, Cheshire; between Stockport and Ashton; 

 near Cromer, in Norfolk ; near Glandford Brigg, Lin- 

 colnshire. 



IRELAND. Donegal mountains. 



NORTH WALES. Between Bala and Ffestiniog. 



Ash down Forest, in Sussex, has been given as a 

 locality, on doubtful authority, certainly; but from 

 what I have seen and know of that district and its 

 productions, I think it is not at all impossible that 

 Davits may be really found there. Wo have there, at 

 uny rate, the heath-covered, yet swampy, moorlands 

 that the insect loves, and also in plenty the plants one 

 finds most abundant in the northern moorlands ; such 



