AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. jog 



SPECIES 4.— PAMPHILA ACT.EON. THE LULWORTIl SKIPPER. 



Plate xli. fii. :>— r. 



Synonysifs. — Papilio Action, EspeT, Iliiliner Pap., Fall. SKi, figs. 

 4«8, 489, male, 490 female. 



Hesperia Actceon, Ochsenhcimer, Curtis, Brit. Eut. pi. 442. 

 (rodart. 



Pamphila Acdcon, Stephens, 111. Ilaust. vol, 4, p. 383. Wood. 

 Inil. Ent. t. .3, f. 17!l. Duncan, Brit. Butt. vol. 2, p. 121 (not figured). 

 Thymelinus Actieon, Iliibner, Vcr/.. bek. Sclim. 



The expan.sion of tlie wings in this species is about an inch in the female, or rather more. The male has the 

 wings on the upper side dusky, with the disk glossed with tawny-orange ; the veins black ; the fore wings 

 having the usual black oblique dash ; occasionally there is a dusky patch at the extremity of the discoidal cell of 

 the fore wings ; the tawny colouring beyond this assuming tlic appearance of a curved series of spots. The 

 under side is more uniformly orange, the disk of the fore wings in the female being more tawny orange : beyond 

 the dark extremity of the discoidal cell is a curved series of six or seven orange spots, divided from each other by 

 the veins of the wings. The under side in tliis sex has a pearly ochre lustre ; a large orange i)atch on the fore 

 wings extending to the tip of the discoidal cell, where the pale row of spots again appears, but more obscurely : 

 and an oblique portion of the inner edge of tlie hind wings yellowish orange. 



In its general character, and the almost uniform c(douring of the male, this species approaches Linca, but tiie 

 more maculated appearance of the female approaches nearer to the preceding species. 



This extremely local species was discovered in August 1}{32 by J. C. Dale, Esq., at Lulworth Cove, in 

 Dorsetshire, in considerable numbers, frequenting thistles. It has since been found by the Rev. J. Locke)' near 

 the Burning Cliff, in Dorsetshire, in plenty. Mr. Humphreys mentions above that he took it in 18135, at 

 Shenston, near Lichfield, where it was in great plenty. 



SPECIES .5.— PAMPHILA LIXEA. THE SMALL SKIPPER. 



Plate xli. tig. 8—12. 



a, f. 78. Dunran, liiil. Bull. C, pi. 1, f. 4. 

 Thijmelinns Liuea, Iliibner ( Verz. bck. Schinet.) 

 Papilio TImnmax, Esper, I.cwin, Pap. pi. 4j, f. J— 7. .Stewaii. 

 Papilio Comma, Barbut. 

 Papilio Flavus, Miiller. 



SvNoNYMES. — Ilc^peria Linea, Fabrieiiis, Ocli^cuhciiuer, Leach, 

 Curtis, Boisdnval. 



Papilio Linca, ILawonh, Donovan, vol. 7, pi. 236, f. 2, male. 

 Harris, Aurelian, pi. 2. f. 1. 



Pamphila Linea, Fabricius, Gloss. Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. 



This common little species varies in the expanse of its wings from an inch to an inch and a quarter. Thi; 

 wings above arc fulvous, with tlie veins brown, and a <lark margin ; the male is distinguished by the ordinary 

 oblique line of black scales on the disk of the fore wings, wliich is wanting in the female ; in which sex the ground 

 colour is not so bright, and the dark margin more sutnised within : like them.ale, however, this sex is destitute of 

 the maculations observable in the preceding species. Beneath, the wings are almost of a uniform colour. The 

 fore wings beneath are paler than above ; the base brownish, and the margins pale ; the hind wings are ashy- 

 fulvons, with a large fulvous spot at the anal angle. The club of the antenna) in this species is nearly straight, 

 and not hooked at the tip. 



The Caterpillar is solitary, of a deep green colour, an<l unspotted, but having a dark line down the back, and 

 two whitish later.al lines margined with black. It feeds on the mountain air-grass and other grasses. The 

 chrysalis is enclosed in a slight cocoon, and is of a green colour. 



This species is one of the comtnonest of the family-flying abottt low bushes at the outskirts of woods, 

 making its appearance in the beginning and middle of July, and middle of August, and appearing to be distributed 

 all over the country. 



