138 SKIPPERS. 



The "Grizzled Skipper,"* also a common species in woods and 

 pastures, has upper wings of dark brown, enlivened by squarish 

 spots of cream or straw colour : the hinder pair prettily 

 variegated, and all edged by a fringe of alternate black and 

 white. The caterpillar of this, as well as of some other species, 

 is a leaf-roller, the teazle being the apparently uninviting plant 

 which, nevertheless, affords him board and lodging. Others 

 of the Hesperida feed, in their caterpillar infancy, on other 

 low plants and grasses. In their partial habits of leaf-rolling,, 

 (as well as their enclosure, for transformation, in slight cocoons,) 

 they approach the moth, and diverge from the butterfly. 



Till within comparatively recent years moths were included 

 even by entomologists under the general denomination of 

 BUTTERFLIES - - of the day and of the night. Reaumer, 

 describing the " Death's-head Sphinx," calls it the " Scull 

 Butterfly." The " Oak-lappet," or, as he designates it, " Le 

 Pacquet de feuilles seches " bundle of dry leaves is spoken 

 of as a butterfly also ; and we are told of others (smallest of 

 butterflies, properly moths), not exceeding in magnitude the 

 size of a small fly, the caterpillars of which spend their life's 

 total, with its triple changes, on the leaves of the small 

 " Celandine," -Wordsworth's sylvan favourite of the spring. 

 Nothing indeed can be more defective, as to arrangement and 

 nomenclature,, than the entomological works of the last century, 

 the detailed accuracy (for the most part) of their description, 



* Pyrgus Malv(T. 



