IIESPERIID/r.. — PAMPIIILA. ||)1 



Caterpillar dark browii on the back, with the sides paler, with two yellow lon- 

 gitudinal stripes; black head, and an orange-coloured ring round the neck: 

 it feeds on the Great plantain ( Plantago major.) 



Generally reputed a scarce, but merely a very local, species; it 

 occurs in great plenty in several parts of Northamptonshire and Bed- 

 fordshire at the end of May. " Claphani-park Wood, Bedfordshire, 

 and Whitewood, Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire ; near Luton, Bed- 

 fordshire; the Hanglands and another wood, at Milton in North- 

 amptonshire, near Peterborough." — J. C. Dalc^ Esq. " Between 

 Woodstock and Enstone, Oxon." — liev. W. T. Brcc. " Near 

 Dartmoor, Devon." — Miss Jermyn. 



Sp. 3. Linea. A/is fnfris, jnaritiiie n7g}-o, fwminw inmuiculutls, innn's lineol/i 

 n>gr/i crassiore, posticis subtus gri.seis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 3 lin.) 



He. Linea. Fahrkins. — Pap. Thaumas. lA-witt, pL 45. /'. .5 — 7. — Pam. Linea. 

 Steph. Catal. 



Wings above tawny orange, immaculate, the nervures dusky, and the margin 

 with a black streak ; beneath, the anterior are paler, with the base brown and 

 tip grayish ; the posterior are tawny ash-colour, with a large tawny spot at 

 the anal angle : fringe above rather tawny, with the base brown, beneath ash- 

 colour. The male differs from the female in having an oblique black line in 

 the centre of the anterior wings ; which line is surrounded by a series of elon- 

 gate rugose scales. 



Less common than the Pam. Sylvanus, but nevertheless pretty 

 abundant; it frequents the borders of woods and shrubby places, 

 towards the end of July ; at Coombe, Darenth, Highgatc, and 

 Peckham woods, and near Ripley, Hertford, Dover, and Hastings. 

 " In plenty near York." — IF. C. Hctcitson, Esq. " Glanvilles 

 Wootton."— /. C. Dale, Esq. " On the Devil's Ditch, Cambridge- 

 shire, but not frequent." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



b. With the chth of the antennoc very robust, abrupt, the tip with an acute hook. 



Sp. 4. Sylvanus. Alis griseo fulvis, tnaculis quadratis supra JIai'is, subtiis albido- 

 Jlavescentibus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 2 — .5 lin.) 



He. Sylvanus. Fabricius. — Pap. Sylvanus. Leu'iu,fiLi6.f.\—3. Pam. Syl- 

 vanus. Steph. Catal. 



^^'ings above bright fulvous, with the hinder margin and the nervures brown, 

 the margin itself with a strong black line ; the anterior wings are obsoletely 

 spotted with fulvous, the spots being disposed as in Pam. ("onmia : the pos- 

 terior wings are also similar to those of the last-named insect, but the spots 

 are more indistinct ; beneath fulvous, with the tip of the anterior wings slightly 

 tinted with greenish, and an oblong black patch at the base ; posterior wings 

 obscure greenish, faintly spotted with yellowish- white, with a very slender 



