LARGE HEATH RINGLET. 103 



Underneath, there is a pretty arrangement of sub- 

 dued colouring ; that of the front wings nearly resem- 

 bling the upper side ; the lower wings clouded and 

 spotted with russet-brown on a paler brown ground, the 

 dark rounded brown spots having white centres; but 

 there are no black eye-spots on the hind wings. 



The caterpillar is greenish-grey, with reddish head 

 and two pale lines on each side and a dark one down 

 the back. 



The butterfly, a feeble flier and easily captured, ap- 

 pears in July and August ; its favourite resorts being 

 heaths, dry fields, and lanes. 



It is sometimes called the Small Meadow Brown, 

 and the Gate-keeper. 



THE KINGLET BUTTEKFLY. 

 (ffipparchia Hyperanthus.) (Plate YI. fig. 3, Female.) 



THIS is one of those butterflies in which Nature, depart- 

 ing from her accustomed plan, has reserved the chief 

 adornment of the wings for the under surface, leaving 

 the upper comparatively plain and unattractive. 



In both sexes the wings, above , are of a deep sepia 

 brown, surrounded by a greyish white fringe, and bear- 

 ing several black spots in paler rings, which rings are 



