The chrysalis is described as "obtuse, rounded, tumid, and smooth, the abdominal rings scarcely visible, and wholly of a deep red mahogany colour." It was "in a hollow space a quarter of an inch below the surface, the particles of sand and earth very slightly cohering together, and close to the roots of the grass, yet free from them." The figures of caterpillar and chrysalis are drawn from those in Buckler's "Larvæ of British Butterflies."
Larger Image
Pl. 78.
Grayling Butterfly.
Males, 1, 3 (Chalk), 2 (Heath); females, 4 (Heath); 5, 6 (Chalk).
