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bind margin and apex yellowish grey. Specimens often have 
an antemarginal leaden line. Hind wings yellowish grey, the 
basal portion darker than the rest ; there is a central lighter 
streak, and sometimes a few snbmarginal light dots. PI. LXXVII., 6. 
Time of Appearance. — April to August. 
Habitat. — The South of Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, &c. 
In many places entirely replacing the type ; in some localities 
existing as a seasonal dimorphic form, as in some parts of South- 
Eastern France. 
12. — C. Tiphon, Rott. Naturf. vi. p. 15 (1775); Haw. Lep. 
Brit. p. 16. 
Davus, Fab. Gen. 259 (1777) ; Mant. 28-9 ; Hbst. 186, 3-6 ; 
0. i. 1, 302 ; Godt. ii. 21, 1, 2. 
Tullia, Hiib. 243-4. 
Expands from 1*25 to 1*60 in. All the wings pale fulvous or 
brownish. Fore wings with an apical black spot in a light ring. 
Hind wings with two or three similar spots near the anal angle ; 
fringes light brown or whitish. Female with an indistinct lightish 
streak on the fore wings. Under side ; Fore wings dull fulvous ; 
the costa and hind margin greenish grey ; from one to three 
submarginal black spots, with white centres and whitish rings ; 
within this row of spots is a whitish streak. Hind wings dull 
greenish grey, lighter towards the hind margin, with a central 
whitish streak beginning at the costa, and a submarginal row of 
small black spots in white rings, and generally with white centres ; 
internal to these is a narrow broken white band. PI. LXXVII., 2. 
The above is a description of the markings and coloration of 
the wings in the typical form of this variable species. 
Time of Appearance. — July. 
Habitat. — Moist mountain meadows throughout Northern and 
Central Europe, including the British Islands (the Marsh Ringlet). 
It is local, but common where it occurs. 
Larva. — “ The colour of the head and body is apple-green, 
inclining to olive-green ; the head is dull, opaque, and uniformly 
coloured ; the body is striped. There is a narrow medio-dorsal 
