The British B utter flies Described 



wing, where it broadens out and is irregular and often 

 interrupted. The ground colour here is a subdued 

 green-grey, getting lighter towards the fringe. Females 

 have more ample and rounded wings than the males. 

 I find the most comfortable way to hunt this butterfly 

 is with bare feet and legs, and the trousers well tucked 

 up, which will perhaps convey some idea of the nature 

 of the ground it loves to flit over. Splash, splash you 

 go over the Sphagnum and Cotton-grass, Heather and 

 Marsh Wortleberry, while overhead the eerie cries of 

 the curlew and the lapwing remind the naturalist that 

 there are many young families hidden amongst the 

 Heather, who will rejoice when they see the last of 

 him and that fearful net of his. 



The caterpillar is green, with white lines, and feeds 

 on Cotton-grass in May. The butterfly appears towards 

 the end of June. 



THE SMALL HEATH BUTTERFLY (Ctenonympha 

 Pamphilus), Plate XII., Fig. i. This can be best 

 described as a smaller and brighter edition of Typhon ; 

 occasionally a large specimen may even be mistaken for 

 a small Typhon, but you can always tell the smaller 

 species by the presence of only one eye-spot on the tip 

 of the fore-wing, and no eye-spots anywhere else. Its 

 habits, too, are different, preferring, as it does, a much 

 drier and more pastoral country to sport over. And its 

 range is also wider, being found all over the country 

 from June till September. 



The caterpillar is green and a grass-feeder. I have 

 swept it from grass in August. 

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