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DINGY SKIPPER. 



PLATE LXVI. 



Hesperia Tages, Fabricius. Leach. Jekmtn. 



Papilio Tages, Linn^us. Lewin. Hawoeth. 



" " Harris. 



Thymele Tages, Fabbicius. Stephens. Duncan. 



" " Wood. 



Thanaos Tages, Boisduval. 



Nisoniades Tages, Hubnee. Westwood. 



I HAVE taken this Skipper in plenty near Charmoiith and 

 Lyme Hegis, Dorsetshire, and Devonshire. It is met with at 

 Barnwell and Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of Pole- 

 brook, Northamptonshire; and is very abundant in Raydon 

 Wood, and Wintlesham Wood near Hadleigh, Essex; near Great 

 Bedwyn and Sarum, Wiltshire; and, in fact, in most parts of 

 England. In Ireland it is plentiful at Ardrahan, near Galway, 

 as A. G. More, Esq. tells me. It is taken also in Scotland in 

 different parts. 



It frequents for the most part wooded districts, both the 

 woods themselves, and any places not very distant from them; 

 open flowery pasture meadows, where, a "tenant for life," its 

 sombre hue contrasts well with the yellow of the golden butter- 

 cup on which it alights. 



This jjlain-coloured insect occurs at different periods, in May, 

 June, and July. 



The caterpillar feeds on the bud's-foot lotus, (Lotus cornicu- 

 latus,) and the field eryngo. 



The wings of this species expand to the width of about an 

 inch and a quarter. The fore wings are blackish brown, with 

 three cross-waved bands of grey, the middle one the widest, 



