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base of the hinder wings, and a posterior border, are brown 

 in both sexes, the intermediate portion being pale or red- 

 dish-yellow, with a small ocellus on the under side, the 

 anterior wings are tawny at the base ; the disc pale yellow, 

 with two ocelli, and the margin brownish ; the posterior 

 wings are clouded with white, and dark brown ; the cater- 

 pillar is light green. This insect frequents stony and rocky 

 places, occurring plentifully in such situations both in 

 England and Scotland. 



HIPPARCHIA HYPERANTHUS. Ringlet Butterfly. The 

 whole upper surface is of a dark brown colour, generally 

 having two or three eye-like spots on each wing ; the under 

 side is pale brown, with large ocelli near the margin ; some- 

 times these are nearly obliterated, but usually they are very 

 conspicuous. The caterpillar is greyish-white, with a 

 brown line on the back : it feeds on the Poa annua, or 

 meadow-grass. The butterfly is found pretty abundantly 

 in the open part of woods, meadows, and corn-fields. 



HIPPARCHIA POLYDAMA. Marsh fiinglet. This species 

 measures about an inch and a half across the wings ; the 

 surface is rusty yellow, tinged with brown ; the anterior 

 wings having one or two ocelli towards the hinder margin ; 

 the inferior wings are greyish- white round the outer margin, 



