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spot, but sometimes these are absent, and a few red 

 spots take the place of the bar. The hind wings are 

 smoothly rounded in their outline, and not toothed or 

 scalloped as in the last species (Blandind). The males 

 generally appear towards the end of June, but a few 

 sometimes earlier. The females, however, come later, 

 being found in July, and some even as late as August. 

 The following localities for it are recorded : Rannoch, 

 Perthshire ; Lake District ; Sty Head Tarn ; Langdale 

 Pikes ; Red Skrees Mountains, near Ambleside ; Gable 

 Hill. But other stations for it will probably be added 

 to our list in time. 



THE MARSH RINGLET, OR SMALL RINGLET 

 BUTTERFLY. 



(Ccenonymplia Davus.) (Plate VI. fig. 6.) 



THIS species, which is another North-country butter- 

 fly, varies so much in its colouring of sober drab or 

 brown, with black eye-spots, that its varieties have 

 been described as distinct species under the names of 

 G. Polydama, Typhon, and Iphis, now, however, all 

 placed together under the name of Davus. 



These variations appear to depend in great measure 

 upon local differences of elevation, latitude, &c. 



From this excessive variability also it is very difficult 

 to give a clear general description of the markings, 

 though the insect may be distinguished from other 

 British species that approach it in appearance by the 

 obscure yellowish-drab tint of the upper surface, marked 

 with indistinct eye-spots, and more especially by having 

 on the under surface of the hind wings an irregular 

 whitish band across the centre, and outside of this a 

 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 



