lo Lloyd's natural history. 



GENUS HESPERIA. 

 Hesperia^ Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (i), p. 258 (1793) ; Cuvier, 

 Tabl. Elem. d'Hist. Nat. p. 592 (1799); Latreille, Enc. 

 Meth. pp. II, 713 (1819-1823). 

 Pyrgus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 109 (1816); West- 

 wood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 516 (1852). 

 We have only one British representative of this genus, the 

 type, Hesperia malvce (Linn.), the Grizzled Skipper. The genus 

 includes a considerable number of black, white-spotted species, 

 scattered over the world. They differ somewhat in the tufts, 

 &c., peculiar to the males. Some of the European species are 

 Alpine. Our British species belongs to Captain Watson's 

 Section D, in which the male is provided with a costal fold, 

 and a tuft of hair on the hind tibiae. 



THE grizzled SKIPPER. HESPERIA MALVCE. 



{Plate LXX. Fig. i.) 



Papilio malvce^ Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 485, no. 167 



(1758); id. Faun. Suec. p. 285 (1761); Esper, Schmett. 



i- (i) P- 345. P^- 30, fig- 5 (1778); Lewin, Ins. Brit. pi. 



46, figs. 6, 7 (1795)- 

 Papilio alveolus^ Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 466, 467, 597 



(1803?). 

 Hesperia malva^ Newman, Brit. Butterflies, p. 170 (1881); 



Kirby Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 6t^^ pi. 15, fig. 9 



(1879). 

 Syrichthus malvce^ Lang, Butterflies Eur. p. 344, pi. 81, fig. i 



(1884). 

 Thymele alveolus^ Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 97 



(1828); Buckler, Larvse of Brit. Lepid. i. p. 123, pi. 16, 



fig. I (1886). 

 Syrichthus alveolus^ Barrett, Lepid. of Brit. Isl. i. p. 268, pi. 37 



fig. I, t^«-/(i893)- 



