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GENUS Ï. BUTTERFLIES. 



SEC. III. S P. XXIII. BROWN ARGUS. 

 PL 20. 



Hyperantus. Linnaus. 

 Ringlet. Harris. 



Caterpillars that feed on the leaves of trees, fhrubs, or bufhes, are readily 

 diicovered by beating the boughs into a fheet -, but thofe that feed on herbs, or 

 graffes, that grow clofe to the furface of the earth, are not to be obtained but 

 by the moft diligent fearch under the cover, that the leaves or roots afford them : 

 and as the caterpillars in this fection do not keep together, but are difperfed, 

 and live in a folitary manner, they are but rarely to be met with. The cater- 

 pillar of this butterfly lives through the winter, and does not arrive at its full 

 growth, as at fig. 1, till the middle of May; when it prepares for its transfor- 

 mation. Sufpending itfelf by the tail, it changes to the chryfalis, as at fig. 2, 

 in a few hours ; and the whole of the metamorphofis is completed in three 

 weeks, the butterfly being perfect, and on the wing, the firft week in June. 

 The upper parts are reprefented at fig. 3, and the under fide of the male at fig. 4. 

 The female differs a little on the under fide, and is reprefented at fig. 5. This 

 is a common infect, frequenting the fkirts of woods, and the fides of hedges, 

 when on flight. 



