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BRITISH BUTTERFLIES 



SPECIES 1.— CYCLOPIDES PANISCUS. THE CHEQUERED SKIPPER. 



Plate xxxix. fig. 6 — 9. 



Synonvmes. — Hesperia Panlscus, Fulricius, Ochscnhcimer, 

 Learli, Jermyn, Curtis. 



Papilio Paniscus, Donovan, vol. 8, pi. '2.')4, fij- ' ; Hawortli. 



Pamphila Paniscus,Vvihmmi, Syst. Gloss.; Stephens; Wood, 

 Ind. Ent. t. 3, f. 77 ; Duncan, Brit. Butt. 2, pi. 1, fig. 3. 



Sleropes Paniscus, Boisduval, II. n. Lep. pi. 9 B, fig, 7. 

 Cr/clopides Patdscus, Hiibner (Vcrz. bck. Scliiuctt.) 

 Papilio Brontes, Hiibner. 

 Papilio Sylvius, Villars. 



This pretty species is generally about an inch .ind 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 largo orange blotch in the middle, 

 marked towards th.e costa with a small square brown spot ; beyond the middle is an irregular bar of orange, 

 divided by the veins of the wings, and interru])tcd 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 largo 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, whicli are 

 orn.aniented with pale buff spots, edged with brown ; five being on the disc of larger size, and a submargin;xl row 

 of smaller ones, the outer two of which are the largest. The antennas 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 brovs'n 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 Ilaglands 

 Wood, near Peterborough; Clapham Park Wood, Bedfordshire; Whitewood, Gamlingay, Carab.; 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 Blonk's Wood, Hants, and in a wood near C)undle, Northamptonshire." H. Doubleday, Esq., in 

 "The Entomologist," August 1841. 



SPECIES 2.— CYCLOPIDES SYLVIUS. 



Plate xx.tix. lig. 10—12. 



Pampliila 5;<'///v'hs, Stephens ; Wood, Tnd. Ent. t. 53, f. 18. 

 Ci/clopides Sj/lvius, Iliilmer. 



SvNoNYMEs Papilio Si/lriiis, Knocb ; Hiibner, Pa]!, pi. 04, f. 



477, 478 ; Ernst, 1, pi. 74, Suppl. 20, f. 96, e. f. 

 Hesperia Si/leius, Fabricius, (Jebsenlieinier. 



This reputed British insect is nearly an inch and a quarter in the exp.anse of its fore wings, which are tawny 

 orange above, spotted with black, four being on the disc, and a row of sm.aller ones along the margin, which is 

 dusky. The hind wings, on the contrary, are brown above, spotted with orange, four sj)ots 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 subiuarginal series, the discoidal spots being the same as above. 



