On Saturday, September 8, 2012 1:15:06 PM UTC+1, (unknown) wrote:
Willi wrote:

It's got very raggedy wing edges, looks impressively like a dead leaf

when wings are closed. On opening they are orangey with dark spots in

a kind of mottled pattern, I think (weren't open long). It's currently

sat in the sun on a bunch of grapes.



That was probably a "Comma" (Polygonia c-album).



Looking at the pictures, I think you're probably right, thank you

http://www.searchlotto.co.uk/yhs_sea...rfly&cid=13010



Although the one I had was much darker on the inside than those photos

show (although they're probably all flash-lit or bright sunlighted)

and the edges were /much/ more raggedy.

The colours can vary quite a lot with commas. Newly emerged specimens will sometimes appear darker than ones which have lived for some weeks.

Ones that have been flapping around in someone's garden shed window for a day or two before the door finally opens and they can return to the big wide world will have almost translucent wings.