EPINEPHELE. 239 



THE LARGE HEATH BUTTERFLY. EPINEPHELE TITHONUS. 



(Plate XXXL, Figs. 4, 5.) 



Papilio tithonuS) Linn., Mant. Plant, p. 537 (1771). 

 Papilio phadra, Esper, Schmett, i., pt. i, p. 120, pi. 9, fig. i, 



p. 323, pi. 28, fig. 3 (i777). 

 Hipparchia tithomis, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. Haust, i., p. 58 



(1828); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Butterflies and Moths, 



p. 167, pi. 5, fig. 2 (1886). 

 Epinephek tithonus, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 40, 



pi. 13, fig. 5 (1878); Lang, Butterflies of Europe, p. 310, 



pi. 74, fig. 2 (1884); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl., i., p. 245, 



pi. 34 (1893). 



A smaller insect than the Meadow Brown Butterfly, mea- 

 suring only an inch and a quarter or an inch and a half across 



The Large Heath (Epinephele tithomis}. Under side of Male. 



the wings, the female being usually much larger than the male. 

 The fore-wings are fulvous, except the borders, and are marked 

 with a conspicuous black eye with two white pupils ; the hind- 

 wings are brown, with a large sub-marginal fulvous band or 

 blotch. In the male the fulvous portion of the wings is darker 

 than in the female, and the lower part is marked by a large 

 brown blotch running up into it. On the under side the fore- 

 wings are coloured nearly as above; the hind-wings are greyish- 

 brown, with an irregular greyish band beyond the middle, 

 marked with three or four white dots in reddish-brown rino- s . 



