BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS 



common insect, but seems to have disappeared from 

 some of its former haunts. From the Autumn hatching, 

 hibernated larvae feed up in the Spring, pupate, and 

 emerge, the first on the wing being noted during April, 

 or early May. 1'he first batch of light green eggs are 

 laid on grasses in early Summer, and the larva — which is 

 greenish-white, with white dots — feeds upon these latter. 

 The green pupa is adorned with spots and other markings. 

 The outspread form of the imago, as it is seen flying 

 in front of the wayfarer and then settling on a road, path, 

 or wall, will be known to every country dweller. Bright 

 tawny-yellow, with black veinings and spots (the latter 

 with white pupils), is the general colouration, and the 

 insect is such a reveller in the sun that it rests at ease 

 until the observer is close upon it. 



Mcadoto Brocoa. 



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Meadow Brovin.—{Epinephele ianira.) If the Wall 

 Brown deserves the forepart of its popular English name, 

 the present species, the Meadow Brown (Fig. 7), is 

 doubly entitled to its environmental attachment. It is 

 indeed a meadow-loving insect, and one's mind at once 

 reverts to flower-strewn fields and waysides among 



