PAMriTITA. 17 



Carlcrncephahis pahvmr>ti^ I^ang, Butterflies Eur. p. 556, pi. 



82, fig 5 ; pl- ^o, fi V 4 (transf.) (1884). 

 Steropes taniscus^ Buckler, Larvcc of Brit. Lcpid. i. [)p. 129, 



19^, pi. 17, fig. I (1886). 

 Cydopidcs paniscus^ Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. i. p. 298, pi. 40, 



figs. I, \a-d {iZcfi). 

 This Butterfly is common in many places in Central Europe, 

 but in North Germany and Denmark it is al)scnt, reappearing 

 in England and Finland. Eastwards it occurs throughout 

 Northern and Central Asia. I do not remember having taken 

 it except at Heidelberg, where it was not very common. In 

 England it is a very local insect, appearing at the end of May 

 and June, in woods. It has been recorded from seven or 

 eight counties of England, chiefly in the eastern and east 

 midland counties, though it has also been met with in Hamp- 

 shire and Devon. " Its principal haunts in this country appear 

 now to be the larger woods of Northamptonshire and Lincoln- 

 shire." {Barrett.) Its occurrence in Devon is one of a series 

 of observations which suggest some affinity between the speci- 

 ally Midland Fauna, and that of the south-western counties. 

 The distribution of PolyoJiimatus arion points in the same 

 direction. 



'J'hc Chequered Skipper, which measures an inch or rather 

 more in expanse, is brown, with yellow fringes, and a row of 

 sub-marginal spots of pale fulvous. The fore-wings have an 

 oblique fulvous band on the disc, a fulvous spot above it on 

 the costa, and some fulvous spots in the cell, and towards the 

 base. On the hind-wings there are several pale fulvous spots 

 towards the l)ase, and the sub-marginal spots are larger than 

 on the fore-wings. In the female, the sub-marginal spots arc 

 smaller, there are fewer spots towards the base of the fore- 

 wings, and thc;se on the hind-wings are much paler than in the 

 male, being almost crcam-colour ur white. On the under 



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