20 LLOYD S NATURAL HISTORY. 



whether Urbicola (which must date from Linnaeus, and not 

 from Barbut, if used at all) is admissible as a generic name. 



THE SMALL SKIPPER. ADOP^EA THAUMAS. 



{Plate LXX. Fig. 4 ; pi. LXXL Fig. i.) 



Papilio ihaumas^ Hufnagel, Berl. Mag. ii. p. 62, no. 10 (1766) ; 



Von Rottenberg, Naturf. vi. p. 4 (1775) ; Espcr, Scbmett. 



i. (i) p. 344, pi. id, figs. 2, 3 (1777) ; i. (2) p. 25, pi. 98, figs. 



5-10(1790?). 

 Papilio linea, Denis & Schiffermiiller, Syst. Verz. Schmett. 



Wien.p. 160, no. 5 (1776) ; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 



485-487(1803?). 

 9 Papilio venula, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 666, 669 



(1818?). 

 Pamphila linea, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. loi (1828) ; 



Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. i. p. 175, pi. 38, figs, i, la-e 



(1893); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. i. pp. 139, 195, 



pi. 17, fig. 3(1886). 

 Pamphila thauinas, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 66, 



pi. 15, fig. 14 (1879). 

 Hesperia ihaumas, Lang, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 350, 



pi. 81, fig. 9 ; pi. 80, fig. 5 (transf.) (1884). 



The Small Skipper measures from an inch to an inch and a 

 quarter across the v/ings, which are of a light fulvous or tawny 

 above, with a black line at the base of the pale fringes ; on the 

 fore-wings of the male is generally a rather broad black streak. 

 The hind-wings are greenish ash-colour beneath, broadly tinged 

 with fulvous along the inner-margin. The antennae are blackish, 

 ringed with pale yellow, and yellowish beneath ; the tip of the 

 club is fulvous. 



The larva is green, with a darker dorsal stripe divided by a 

 pale thread, and two yellowish-white lines on the sides ; it feeds 

 on grass. The pupa is yellowish-green. 



