VADE MECUM. 10,3 



vnth lilack ; sometimes there are also two or three bhick 

 eye-like spots. The male has no orange band, and the 

 underside of the secondary wings is not so distinctly marked, 

 the line being fainter and less angular that separates the 

 darker from the paler portions, and the black dots smaller. 



Caterpillar. Green, with a white lateral streak, thickly 

 covered with soft flexible hair.s. 



Chrysalis. Yellowish-green, with blackish streaks on the 

 head and wing-ca.ses. 



Observation. This is perhaps the most common as well as 

 most hardy of British Butterflies ; never being aftccted or 

 deprived of its life and animation, either by excessive heat, 

 or in the most rainy and cheerless summers. 



HIPPARCHIA TITHONUS,' LARGE HEATH. 



Lewin, pi. li.3,i. Donova/t, u.7, p. 242. Dutican,pl.23,fg.2. 



Biitler/li/. The primary wings above, are tawny yellow, 

 brown at the anterior and posterior margin, with an eye-like 

 .spot with two pupils, or two white points on a black spot, 

 on both .sides towards the tip. Underneath, tawny-orange, 

 »vith a brownish margin. The .secondary wings brown, 

 with a tawny-orange disk, an obsolete eyelet towards the 

 anal angle. Underneath, at the base, tawny-brown termi- 

 nating in an angular Une, posteriorly paler clouded with 

 broivn tawny, with from three to five minute white points 

 or spurious eyelets. 



Caterpillar. Greenish, streaked with white, with a dull 

 brown head. 



Chrysalis. Green. 



• This is 7>. Pitosella of Hawortli uiid mnny iiutliors, 



