MARSH RINGLET SMALL HEATH. 81 



" mosses/' in a great many localities in Scotland and 

 the northern counties. The following are among those 

 recorded : 



SCOTLAND. Shetland Isles ; Isle of Arran ; Pent- 

 land Hills ; Ben Nevis ; Een Lomond, near Oban ; 

 Ben More. 



ENGLAND. Lake District of Cumberland ; Yorkshire; 

 Beverley ; Cottingham ; Hatfield Chase ; Thome Moor ; 

 White Moss, Trafford Moss, Chat Moss, near Man- 

 chester ; Chartly Park, near Uttoxeter ; Delmere 

 Forest, Cheshire ; between Stockport and Ashton ; 

 near Cromer, in Norfolk ; near Glandford Brigg, Lin- 

 colnshire. 



IRELAND. Donegal mountains. 



NORTH WALES. Between Bala and Ffestiniog. 



Ashdown Forest, in Sussex, has been given as a 

 locality, on doubtful authority, certainly ; but from 

 what I have seen and know of that district and its 

 productions, I think it is not at all impossible that 

 Davus may be really found there. We have there, at 

 any rate, the heath-covered, yet swampy, moorlands 

 that the insect loves, and also in plenty the plants one 

 finds most abundant in the northern moorlands ; such 

 as Yacciniums, Cotton-grasses, the three common Heaths, 

 &c. &c. with great variety in the elevation, some of 

 the ground lying very hign. 



THE SMALL HEATH BUTTEKFLY. 



(Coenonympha Pamphilus.) (Plate VI. fig. 7.) 



THIS is the pretty little tawny-coloured butterfly that 

 mixes with the sportive group of "Blues," Meadow 

 Browns, &c. on heaths, downs, and grassy fields. 



The general colour of the upper surface is a tawny 

 yellow or buff, shaded with a darker tint of brown at 

 the edges and at the bases of the hind wings. On the 

 under side it may be distinguished from G~ Davus by 



