62 THE GENERA AND SPECIES OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 
Pamphila Linea (the Small Skipper, Nos. 4 to 8). This common and pretty species is 
abundant everywhere at the season of its annual appearance. It often finds its way even into 
our large populous towns from the neighbouring woods and fields, enlivening the streets with 
its skipping flight, yet seldom attracting the attention of the boy Butterfly-hunter in the way 
that a stray specimen of one of the Garden Whites never fails to do, 
The Caterpillar (No. 7) is said to feed on Grasses ; and possibly also on the foliage of 
Thistles, as the perfect insects are generally found fluttering in great numbers over places where 
those plants are abundant. It is found in July. 
The perfect insect appears in August, being rather later than the rare P. Acteon. Plymouth, 
Brighton, and Worcester, are places where it has been recently observed in the greatest abun- 
dance, 
