RED ADMIRAL AND GRAYLING 



The larva appears to vary a great deal, blackish, brownish, 

 greyish, and other colours being produced. In any 

 case, there is an array of branched hairs, and the larva 

 builds a silken tent in which it can take cover, thus 

 resembling the Painted Lady in this respect. The 

 greyish pupa is relieved with a gold sheen of unsurpassed 

 splendour, and when the hidden object is discovered 

 under shelter of nettle leaves, the wayfarer may well 

 reflect upon the truthfulness of Mrs. Browning's well- 

 known lines that " Earth's crammed with heaven." 

 That it is a migrant to this country seems agreed, but a 

 great many items in its romantic career are missing, and 

 the reader would perform useful service if an attempt was 

 made to elucidate some of the mysteries of its life. 



The Fritillaries — beautiful butterflies though they are 

 — are of more or less local distribution, and cannot be 

 dealt with at any length in a book of such modest dimen- 

 sions as this. Several of them, in addition to attractive 

 colouration and marking on the upper surfaces, have a 

 silver-wash ornamentation underneath. We pass also 

 in our review the very rare Milkweed Butterfly, Marbled 

 White, Small Mountain Ringlet, and Scotch Argus, and 

 this brings us to the Grayling which is thus represented 

 by name both here and in the third volume of this series 

 devoted to reptiles, amphibians, and fresh-water fishes. 



Grayling. — {Satyrus semele.) This somewhat dull- 

 coloured species seems to be fairly w^ell distributed up 

 and down the country where there is a plentiful supply of 

 heath, or downland, grassy tracks by the sea, and else- 

 where. In some Southern Counties, however, it is of 



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