GRIZZLED SKIPPER. 155 



■\vitli about fourteen small white spots; the base is powdered 

 with white, especially in the male. The fringe is wide and 

 M'hite, elegantly crossed with the black of the ground colour. 

 The hind wings are of the same colour, and marked in a similar 

 manner, bat the ■white spots are much smaller, fewer, and less 

 distinct. 



Underneath, the fore wings are paler, and the spots larger, 

 clearer, and more run together in lines. The hind wings are 

 principally of a neat brown colour, with large spots, one of 

 them a wide short band from the front edge. The inner 

 part of these wings is greyish black. 



The caterpillar is green, with pale longitudinal stripes, the 

 head black, and a yellow ring round the neck. 



The chrysalis is wrapped up in folded leaves of the plant 

 on which the larva feeds. 



There is a not very common variety, which Fabricius and 

 Lewin consider as a distinct species, in which, as Messieurs 

 Westwood and Humphreys describe it, "there is a white oblong 

 blotch on the middle of the fore wings towards the posterior 

 margin, visible on both sides, whicli is frequently duplicated 

 from the confluence of two contiguous spots. The white dots 

 are also larger than in the typical individuals. 



Mr. Stephens possesses a specimen with one of the fore 

 wings marked as in the variety, and the other in the type." 



The plate is from specimens in my own collection, one of 

 them the variety just spoken of. 



