MARSH RINGLET BUTTERFLY. 
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merited with six ocelli, consisting of a black iris with 
a small silver-white pupil, and surrounded externally 
by a yellowish-white ring. In number and size the 
ocellated spots vary considerably, and the anal one 
on the secondary wings is sometimes double. 
This scarce insect frequents marshes and moist 
heaths, and has occurred more frequently than else- 
where in the vicinity of Manchester, and on Shorn 
Moor in Yorkshire. Ashdown Forest has also been 
cited as a locality. 
MARSH RINGLET BUTTERFLY. 
Hipparchia Polydama. 
PLATE XXVI. Fig. 2. 
Hip. Iphis & Polydama, Steph. Jermyn Pap. Typhon ; 
Scarce Heath, Haworth — Pap. Polydama, Haworth, Jer- 
myn. — Pap. Tiphon, Esper. 
This species is about the size of the preceding, to 
which it is very closely related. The colour of the 
surface is rusty ochre-yellow, obscured with brown, 
the anterior wings frequently with one or two blind 
ocelli towards the hinder margin ; the secondary 
wings greyish-white on the abdominal edges and 
round the outer margin, and fringed with rather long 
whitish hairs, usually bearing a blind ocellus near 
the anal angle, and occasionally one or two others 
