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SPECIES 1.—NISONIADES TAGES. THE DINGY SKIPPER. 
Plate xxxviii. fig. 9—13. 
Syyonymes.— Papilio Tages, Linneus, Lewin, Pap, pl. 45, f. 3, 4. Thymele Tages, Fabricius (Gloss.), Stephens, Duncan, Brit. Butt. 
Haworth, Harris Aurelian, pl. 34, fig. 0. 2,pl. 1, f. 2. Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 3, f. 76. 
Hesperia Tages, Fabricius, Leach, Jermyn. Thanaos Tages, Boisduval, H. n. Lep. pl. 9, B fig. 8. 
Nisoniades Tages, Hiibner (Verz. bek. Schm.) 
The expansion of the wings of this species is about an inch and a quarter. The upper surface of the wings is 
brown, the fore wings marked with alternate waved bands of darker brown and grey, which in some specimens 
are in bright relief against each other, and separated by paler zigzag marks ; in addition to which there are 
several indistinct whitish dots, one brighter than the rest being placed near the extremity of the costa; and there 
is also a marginal row of dull white dots. The hind wings are brown, with a small discoidal spot, beyond which 
are two rows of nearly obsolete paler dots. Beneath, the colour is uniformly greyish brown, the fore wings not 
shaded as above, but marked as well as the hind wings with the traces of the pale dots of the upper side. The 
male is duller and more uniformly coloured than the female. 
The caterpillar is bright green, with the head brown, with yellow dorsal and lateral stripes dotted with black. 
It feeds on the field Eryngo, and bird’s-foot lotus. 
This species frequents woody pastures, heaths, &c., and is found at the beginning of May, in June, and the 
middle of July. Itis by no means so common as Malve. It appears to be very widely extended, for in 
addition to the numerous localities in various parts of England given by Mr. Stephens, Mr. Duncan mentions 
several places in Scotland where it has also occurred. 


CYCLOPIDES, Htsver. (STEROPES, Boispvvat.) 

The typical species of this group differs from the preceding, in its long acuminated fore wings, short hind 
wings, scarcely bent club of the antennze, and want of a fold at the base of the costa of the fore wings ; and from 
the following, by the more slender body, differently formed club of the antenne, and especially by the want of an 
oblique black patch across the middle of the wings of the males, and the identity of colouring in the sexes. The 
palpi are exserted, and as long as the head, with the terminal joint nearly concealed by hairs. The body in the 
males is long and slender, and slightly tufted at the tip. The antenne are short, with the club stout, nearly 
straight, and not hooked at the tip. The wings are brown, tessellated with bright orange spots of a square or 
roundish form. A more important character, however, than any of the preceding, consists in the posterior tibice 
possessing only a pair of spurs at the tip. 
Boisduval’s name for this group is inappropriate, not only because there is a coleopterous genus Steropus, but 
also because one of the European Hesperiide is also named Steropes. 
