BRITISH BUTTERFLIES 



but immediately feels sad when he learns that it has 

 no claim to rarity. 



In sanfoin and lucerne fields, and in rough fields 

 with plenty of bindweed among the herbage, especially 

 in chalky districts, will be found a pretty, active, little 

 Noctuid Moth. It is black in colour with a white 

 blotch on each wing, and is known to the collector as 

 the Four-spotted. It flies briskly in the sunshine, but 

 it is also on the wing in the evening. 



Then there are the Beautiful Yellow Underwing, 

 not uncommon on most heather-clad commons and 

 moorlands ; and the Small Yellow Underwing, often 

 to be seen in some numbers in meadows, etc., in May 

 and early June. Both these insects are lovers of the 

 sun, and are only active in the daytime under its in- 

 fluence. As may be gathered from the English names, 

 each species has yellow hindwings, but in the first 

 named the forewings are purplish or reddish-brown 

 marbled with white and otherwise marked with yellow ; 

 in the other species the forewings are brownish marked 

 through the mid area with blackish. 



In meadows, and flying with butterflies of the 

 Skipper persuasion on rough grassy hillsides, will be 

 seen in early summer the Mother Shipton and the 

 Burnet Companion. The former of these species has 

 the forewings brownish mixed with grey, and upon 

 them a design in ochreous or whitish which may be 



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