MOUNTAIN RINGLET. 
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also found on the Millium effusum. It is greyish- 
white, with a narrow brown line on the back ; some- 
times, however, it is entirely blackish. 
This sombre-coloured, but not inelegant butterfly, 
is pretty abundant in all parts of Britain, frequent- 
ing meadows, the open parts of woods, and the sides 
of corn-fields. The variations which it presents in 
the magnitude and number of the ocelli are very nu- 
merous. 
MOUNTAIN RINGLET. 
Hipparchia Cassiope. 
PLATE XXIV. Fig. 3. 
Fabricius. — Pap. Mnemon, Haworth, Entom. Trans. — Ste- 
phens's Illus. Haust. vol. i. pi. 8 P. melampus, Herbs!. 
— P. Alcyone, Borkh. 
Much less than the preceding species, the wings 
expanding about 16 lines. The colour is dark brown, 
with a silky gloss, the upper wings having a red 
band towards the apex, somewhat interrupted at the 
nervures, and marked with a row of from three to 
five black spots : the short hand of the hinder wings 
consists of a few continuous red marks, each bearing 
a small black spot. The under side of the anterior 
wings differs from the upper only in having the disk 
