GRAYLING MEADOW BROWN. 101 



Exeter, Plymouth, Falmouth, Truro, Bristol, Dorset- 

 shire, Salisbury Plain, Winchester, Worcester, New- 

 market, Gamlingay, Isle of Arran, Arthur's Seat (Edin- 

 burgh), Durham, Darlington, Glasgow, Lake District. 



THE MEADOW BKOWST BUTTEEFLY. 

 (Hipparchia Janira.) 



(Plate VI. fig. 1, Male; la, Female.) 



PERHAPS of all our butterflies this is the least attrac- 

 tive, being too common to excite interest from its rarity 

 or difficulty of attainment, as other dingy butterflies do, 

 and too plain and homely to win regard, in spite of its 

 commonness, as the beautiful " Small Tortoise-shell " 

 and the Common Blues do. 



This is the sober brown insect that keeps up a con- 

 stant fluttering, in sunshine and gloom, over the dry 

 pasture land and barren hill-side ; and perhaps it ought 

 to find favour in our eyes, from this very fact of keeping 

 up a cheerful spirit under circumstances the most unfa- 

 vourable to butterfly enjoyment in general. 



The colouring of the male, on the upper side, may be 

 described as a sooty brown, rather lighter about the 

 eye-spot on the front wing. 



