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SMALL MEADOW BROWN.
LARGE HEATH, (GATE-KEEPER.)
PLATE XVIII.
Sipparchia tithonus, OCHSENHEIMEB. STEPHENS.
« " CUETIS. DUNCAN. WESTWOOD.
Papilio tithonus, LINN^US. LEWIN. HARRIS.
Pyronia tithonus, HUBNEB.
Papilio tithonius, VILLAES.
" herse, HUBNER.
" phadra, ESPER.
" pilosella, FABEICIUS. HAWOETH. DONOVAN.
ONE great advantage in the pursuit of entomology is, that
no day in the year is, at least no day need be, a 'dies non;'
there is always something to be met with, even in the depth
of winter, "something to please, and something to instruct."
The summer, however, is the hey-day of the butterfly's exis­
tence; for even though some of them, of several species, live
throughout the winter in a dormant state, appearing again in
early spring, when some hot day calls them forth from their
retreat to renewed life, yet it is the former season to which,
even to a proverb, they belong.
This is a very common British species, and is widely dis­
tributed, occurring in lanes and meadows.
It appears about the middle of July.
The caterpillar is to be found in the beginning of June.
It feeds on the Poa annua, or annual meadow grass, and
also, according to Haworth, on the Hieracium pilosella.
The wings expand to the width of from one inch and a
half to an inch and three quarters. Their ground-colour on the