THE MEADOW-BROWNS 



centers ; and one shows a small, solidly dark spot 

 above for the hind ocellus, which does not ap- 

 pear at all on the under side. Some individuals 

 show one small light-centered spot on the hind 

 wing above ; others show none at all. Some have 

 a zigzag row of six blue-centered eye-spots of 

 varying sizes on the lower side of the hind wing, 

 and others show only two, and they are obscure. 

 This satyr is a lover of lonely lanes and bram- 

 ble-covered walls and fences as well as of the 

 open woods. Its taste is like Lucy Larcom's : 



I like the flowers that you call weeds, 

 Sedge, hardhack, mullein, yarrow, 



That knit their roots and sift their seeds 



Where any grassy wheel-track leads 

 Through country byways narrow. 



Mr. Edwards has observed that the blue-eyed 

 grayling loves to visit the hardhack flowers in the 

 East and the tickseed on the plains of the West. 

 The species is single-brooded. The caterpillar 

 hibernates as it hatches from the egg, a minute 

 speck of life to endure the cold of winter. When 

 a caterpillar rests upon a stem of grass it is quite 

 invisible to any save the keenest eye. 



The Dull-eyed Grayling. — This form has eyes 

 quite as bright as those of the blue-eyed gray- 

 ling, only they are usually not so large and they 



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