S-1141001_COMPLETO.pdf

PLATE XXV.
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SILVER-BORDERED RINGLET
Htpparchia hero, OCHSENHEIMEB. STEPHENS. CURTIS.
Papilio hero, LINNAEUS. HAWORTH.
sabaus, FABRICIUS.
melibaus, ERNST.
Ccenonympha hero, WESTWOOD.
THIS is one of the rarest British insects; two specimens
only being all that at present are known to have occurred.
One, a female, was taken by Mr. Plastead, near Withyam, on
the borders of Ashdown Forest, Sussex; and Mr. Stephens states
that he obtained another from the neighbourhood of Lamberhurst,
in the same county. Who knows, however, how many others
may have been overlooked, or how many may yet be taken
by keen observers, who act upon the moral conveyed in Mrs.
Barbauld's instructive story of "Eyes and no Eyes?"
This Butterfly measures about one inch and a half in the
expanse of its wings; they are of a general fulvous brown
colour. The fore wings are paler along the front edge, and
have an orange stripe close to the hind margin, near which
are two small indistinct orange-coloured eyes with brown centres.
The hind wings have also a narrow orange stripe near the
outer margin, above which are four large black eyes, with
minute whitish-coloured pupils, and surrounded by a broad
orange ring.
Underneath, the fore wings are of the same general colour
as the upper side, but there is a narrow silver stripe adjoining
the orange one. In the hind wings there is a continuation,
as it were, of the silver stripe through them, and also an
irregular whitish bar rather beyond the middle, succeeded by