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SATYRIDM. 
black spots. Under side lighter brown ; fore wings with one or 
two small ocellated spots near the hind margin, and with a mar- 
ginal leaden line. Hind wings with a snbmarginal row of black 
spots surrounded by yellow rings, and with silvery centres ; these 
spots approximate closely to one another, and are four or five in 
number, decreasing in size from the anal angle towards the costa ; 
on the costa, and detached from the submarginal row, is another 
spot, similar to the largest of the others ; there is a marginal 
leaden line. PI. LXXIV., 6. 
Times of Appearance. — June and July. 
Habitat. — Moist woods and meadows in the South of France, 
Piedmont, Northern Switzerland, South-East Germany, Hungary, 
South-East Eussia, the Altai, and the Amur. A very local species. 
Larva. — Green, with a dark green dorsal stripe, and light 
yellow lateral lines. On Carex in July and August. 
VARIETY. 
Miris, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 429 (1798). — Has the 
ocellated spots larger than in the type, especially on the under side 
of the fore wings. 
2. — C. Hero, Linn. Faun. Suec. 274; Esp. 22, 4; Hiib. 253-3, 
349-50; 0. i. 1, 313. 
Expands from 1-10 to 1*15 in. Wings dull brown. The fore 
wings in the male are usually uniform brown. Hind wings with a 
submarginal row of orange spots, four in number, and with black 
centres. Under side : Fore wings brown ; hind margin reddish, 
with a row of small black spots and a leaden line. Hind wings 
brown, with a submarginal row of black spots, five or six in 
number, surrounded by orange rings and with silvery white 
centres ; internal to these is a white line, and external to them a 
leaden one. The female is lighter and more strongly marked than 
the male, and has the black spots surrounded by orange rings on 
the fore wings. 
Times of Appearance. — May and June. PI. LXXV., 1. 
Habitat. — Moist woods throughout Central Europe, excepting 
Britain ; also in Scandinavia and Livonia. 
