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MARSH RINGLET BUTTERFLY. 
on a line with it. Underneath, the primary wings are 
greenish-brown at the base, rather bright yellowish- 
brown in the middle, and greyish at the apex, mark- 
ed at some distance from the hinder margin with an 
abbreviated white bar, beyond which are generally 
two remote ocelli, with a minute silver -white pupil 
and black iris, encircled by a whitish ring; one of 
these ocelli sometimes obsolete. The basal half of 
the hinder wings is brown, with long greenish hairs ; 
beyond this there is a very irregular whitish band, 
sometimes interrupted, the space beyond which is 
greyish-brown (often with a fulvous cloud in the fe- 
male near the middle), and five or six ocelli, some of 
them usually small and indistinct, and the anterior 
one sometimes placed in the white band. The an- 
tennte are brown above, ringed with white, the club 
tawny. 
Caterpillar and chrysalis dark green, the former 
with a dark line along the back. 
This insect, which may ultimately prove to be 
only a variety of the preceding one, occurs not un- 
frequently on marshy heaths in the months of July 
and August. Mr Wailes finds it frequently in such 
situations near Newcastle: it also occurs near York, 
in North Wales, &c. It was seen in great abun- 
dance last summer in Sutherlandshire, as well as in 
others of the more northern counties of Scotland , 
and we have received it from Argyll and Perth- 
shire. 
