100 BKITISH BUTTEKFLIES AND MOTHS 



The fore- wings are tawny, shading into brown at the 

 margins, with a more or less distinct blackish spot near 

 the tip. The hind- wings are tawny, slightly darker at 

 the hind margin. On the underside of the fore-wings 

 we see one white-centred black spot near the tip ; the 

 underside of the hind- wings is ashy-grey, towards the 

 base brownish, with a central whitish band, and then a 

 narrow brown band, in which are from three to six white 

 dots. 



The larva is of a delicate apple-green, with three 

 darker green stripes, horde re 1 with whitish ; the head 

 and underside are yellowish-green ; the anal points are 

 reddish; it feeds from May to August on various grasses. 



The perfect insect appears in June and may be met 

 witli in September ; it occurs in hayfields and meadows, 

 and grassy hill-sides. 



Closely allied to the Small Heath Butterfly, but 

 larger, and with several distinct white -cent red black 

 spots on the underside of the wings, namely, from one 

 to four on the fore-wings and from six to seven on the 

 hind- wings, is the Marsh Ringlet (Cdenonymplia Dav us) , 

 which occurs in June and July on moors and mosses in 

 the north, and on hill-tops in Scotland ; it also occurs 

 in the west of Ireland. 



FAMILY II. NYMPHALID^]. Subfamily Nymphalidi. 



LIMENITIS SIBILLA. THE WHITE ADMIRAL 

 BUTTERFLY. 



This graceful insect is confined to woods in the south 

 of England ; amongst the recorded localities may be 

 mentioned Epping and Colchester in Essex, Tenterden 

 in Kent, Black Park in Buckinghamshire, Andover, 



