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number, T. Rubi, has this very slightly developed). 

 From each other they are best distinguished by the 

 characters on their under surface, where they all bear a 

 more or less distinct Aatr-like streak, whence their com- 

 mon name Hair-streak. 



The Brown Hair-streak is the largest of the genus, 

 measuring sometimes an inch and two- thirds in expanse. 

 The two sexes differ considerably on the upper surface, 

 the male being of a deep brown colour, slightly paler 

 near the middle of the front wing, while the female 

 possesses on the front wing a large patch of clear orange* 

 Both sexes have several orange marks upon the lower 

 angles of the hind wings. Beneath, the general colour 

 is tawny orange with duller bands, and marked with one 

 white line on the front wing, and two parallel white line* 

 on the hind wings. 



The caterpillar is green, marked obliquely with white ; 

 it feeds on the birch and also on the sloe. 



The butterfly appears in August, continuing into Sep- 

 tember. It is generally distributed through the south, 

 but is by no means an abundant insect Mr. Stain- 

 ton observes that it has a habit of "flitting along in 

 hedges just in advance of the collector ;" but it is also 

 found in oak woods in company with ths Purple Hair- 

 etreak. 



Forty were taken in a season in woods near Henfield, 

 Sussex. Other localities are, Underharrow Moss, West- 

 moreland; !NV>rth Lancashire, common in some parts; 

 Prenton ; Valley of the D jvey, Montgomeryshire ; 



