SPECKLED WOOD BUTTERFLY. 
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glossed with violet. The upper and under sides of 
the body aro concolorous with the corresponding 
faces of the wings. 
The caterpillar is covered with a matted pubes- 
cence of a green colour, and marked on the sides 
with yellow or whitish lines. It feeds on various 
grasses, but prefers the common couch-grass. 
The Speckled Wood Hipparchia is a vernal spe- 
cies, the first flight taking place in the beginning 
of April. This is succeeded by two others, one in 
June, the other in August. It appears to extend 
over all Britain. It is included in a list of Papilio- 
nidcB found near Dover ;* we have received it from 
the north of Scotland, and have often seen it in the 
neighbourhood of Edinburgh, in Roxburghshire, and 
other southern counties, and it is far from scarce in 
most parts of England. From the notices we have 
received, however, it appears to be rather scarce in 
the vicinity of Newcastle and Durham. 
* Loudon’s Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. 5. 
