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with a few yellowish minute spots ; these are, however, often 

 very indistinct. The caterpillar is greenish, dusky on the 

 back, and having a white line on each side ; it feeds on the 

 Cynosurus cristatus, or crested dog's-tail grass. The Butter- 

 fly is very generally found until September. 



HIPPABCHIA JANIRA. Meadow Brown. This species is 

 much larger than the two preceding, the wings of the 

 female measuring nearly two inches ; the ground-colour is 

 brown, usually darkest in the male, and with a small ocellus 

 near the apex, encircled with reddish-yellow as a rim, but 

 in the female there is a large patch of ochre-yellow, within 

 which the ocellus is placed ; the hinder wings of the male 

 are usually unspotted, but those of the female have an 

 obscure yellowish mark in the centre ; the under side of the 

 primary wings is tawny-orange, with a broad pale band, in 

 which is placed an ocellus ; the hinder wings are dusky 

 brown at the base and margin, the centre being paler, and 

 sometimes marked with two or three minute black spots. 

 The caterpillar is light green, with a white line on each 

 side ; it feeds on several kinds of grass. This is one of the 

 most common Butterflies. Even in those damp cheerless 

 summers, when few other insects are found, this hardy little 

 creature may frequently be seen flying from flower to flower: 



