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LEAST MEADOW BROWN
SMALL HEATH.
PLATE XXI.
Hipparchia pamphilus, OCHSENHEIMER. LEACH.
STEPHENS. CURTIS. DUNCAN.
Papilio pamphilus, LINNAEUS. LEWIN. DE GEER.
HAWORTH. STEWART. HARRIS.
" nephele, HUBNER.
Canonympha pamphilus, WESTWOOD.
THIS is one of our commonest species, being abundant in
almost all • parts of the country in the summer time, "when
the face of all nature looks pleasant and gay." It is frequent
on heaths, as also in meadows and various other situations; it
is, however, scarce in the neighbourhood of Falmouth, as W
P. Cocks, Esq. has informed me.
There are two broods, whereof the first appears the beginning
of June, and the second in September.
The caterpillar is found in the beginning of May and August.
It feeds on the Cynosurus cristatus, or crested dog's-tail grass.
In this insect the wings expand to the width of from a
little more than an inch to nearly an inch and a half. The
fore wings are of a pale fulvous or tawny yellow colour, and
the margins brownish, these being darker and more decided
in the male than in the female. There is an indistinct eye
near the tip, sometimes accompanied by a still smaller one, or
by one or more black dots. The hind wings are of the same
colour as the upper ones, but with a grey mark irregularly
margined over their inner half, and with sometimes an obsolete
eye near their lower corner.