220 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Eyes naked ; antennse short, slender, ringed with white, 

 with a rather large club ; all the principal nervures of the fore- 

 wings considerably dilated. 



These are Butterflies of rather small size, with rounded 

 tawny or brown wings, rarely marked with eyes above, except 

 the indication of one at the tip of the fore- wings, but generally 

 with a conspicuous row of eyes on the hind-wings beneath. 

 They are confined to the temperate regions of the Northern 

 Hemisphere, and are mostly heath-frequenting or woodland 

 insects ; a few species, however, are found on damp moors. 

 Four species are here included in the British list, one of which 

 however, is not fairly established as really British ; and several 

 others have been reputed British, though probably in error. 

 One of these, C. hero (Linn.), is a brown species, with nume- 

 rous and conspicuous black eyes with blue pupils in orange 

 rings, bounded outside on the under side of the hind-wings by 

 a bluish and inside by a white line. It is said to have been 

 taken many years ago in Ashdown Forest, where C. davus 

 (C. typhon) and C. arcania and other rare Butterflies are like- 

 wise said to have been found. But there has been no recent 

 confirmation of these captures. One species, C. californica^ 

 West wood, is so pale as to be almost whitish. 



The Australian genus, Hypacysta^ West wood, resembles Cosno- 

 nympha, but the hind-wings are more proJuced at the anal 

 angle. 



THE MARSH RINGLET. CCENONYMPHA TIPHON, 

 (Plate XXXIV., Figs. 3, 4.*) 



Papilio tiphon, Rott, Naturforscher, vi., p. 15 (1775). 

 Papilio davus, Fabr., Gen. Ins., p. 259 (1777). 



* Wrongly named C. polydama in the plate. I followed the nomencla- 

 ture of the old Naturalist's Library, and did not discover the mistake 

 until the plate had been printed off. W. F. K. 



