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SPECIES 1.—CYCLOPIDES PANISCUS. THE CHEQUERED SKIPPER. 
Plate xxxix. fig. 6—9. 
Synonymes. — Hesperia Paniscus, YVabricius, Ochsenheimer, Steropes Paniscus, Boisduval, 1. n. Lep. pl. 9 B, fig. 7. 
Leach, Jermyn, Curtis. Cyclopides Paniscus, Wiibner (Verz. bek. Schmett.) 
Papilio Paniscus, Donovan, vol. 8, pl. 254, fig. 1; Haworth. Papilio Brontes, Hiibner. 
Pamphila Paniscus, Fabricius, Syst. Gloss. ; Stephens ; Wood, Papilio Sylvius, Villars. 
Ind. Ent. t. 3, f. 77; Duncan, Brit. Butt. 2, pl. 1, fig. 3. 
This pretty species is generally about an inch and a quarter in the expansion of its wings, which on the upper 
side are of a dark brown colour, spotted with orange ; the exterior with a large orange blotch in the middle, 
marked towards the costa with a small square brown spot ; beyond the middle is an irregular bar of orange, 
divided by the veins of the wings, and interrupted in the middle; the two small spots which are wanting to 
complete the bar being pushed outwards nearly to the margin of the wing, which is also marked with a row/of 
fulvous dots. The hind wings are marked in the middle of the disc with three large round spots, and a sub- 
marginal row of smaller dots; the fringe is brown, the extremity being dirty orange. Beneath, the ground 
colour of the wings is tawny ; the anterior with three discoidal and four smaller posterior dusky spots, which is 
also the colour of the veins at the extremity of the fore wings, and the entire veins in the hind wings, which are 
ornamented with pale buff spots, edged with brown ; five being on the disc of larger size, and a submarginal row 
of smaller ones, the outer two of which are the largest. The antennz on the under side are bright orange. The 
spottings differ in size in different specimens, but there is no material difference between the sexes. 
The caterpillar has the head black, the neck with an orange ring ; it is dark brown on the back, with two 
pale-yellow stripes on the sides. It feeds on the Plantago major and Cynosurus cristatus. The perfect insect 
appears at the end of May. It is a very local species, although where found it is abundant. Castor Haglands 
Wood, near Peterborough; Clapham Park Wood, Bedfordshire ; Whitewood, Gamlingay, Camb.; near Dartmoor ; 
near Luton, Bedfordshire ; a wood near Milton, Northamptonshire ; are recorded by Curtis and Stephens as its 
localities ; and the Rev. W. T. Bree informs us, that he took it abundantly, the latter end of May 1825, in 
Barnewall Wolde, near Oundle, and in Rockingham Forest, and that he has also taken it near Woodstock. “In 
profusion in Monk’s Wood, Hants, and in a wood near Oundle, Northamptonshire.” H. Doubleday, Esq., in 
“The Entomologist,” August 1641. 

SPECIES 2.—CYCLOPIDES SYLVIUS. 
Plate xxxix. fig. 10—12. 
Synonymes.— Papilio Sylvius, Knoch; Hiilner, Pap. pl. 94, f. Pamphila Sylvius, Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. t. 53, f. 18. 
477, 478; Ernst, 1, pl. 74, Suppl. 20, f. 96, e. f. Cyclopides Sylvius, Hiibner. 
Hesperia Sylvius, Fabricius, Ochsenheimer. 
This reputed British insect is nearly an inch and a quarter in the expanse of its fore wings, which are tawny 
orange above, spotted with black, four being on the disc, and a row of smaller ones along the margin, which is 
dusky. The hind wings, on the contrary, are brown above, spotted with orange, four spots being on the disc, 
and a row of five within the hind margin. On the under side the wings are nearly coloured as above, except that 
there is a chain-like series of brown spots, united by a black line on each vein with the outer margin of the fore 
wings. The hind wings have a similar submarginal series, the discoidal spots being the same as above. 
