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SPOTTED SKIPPER. 



CHEQUEllED SKIPPER. 



PLATE LXXI. 



Hesperia Paniscus, 



Papilio Paniscus, 

 Papilio Brontes, 

 Papilio Sylvius, 

 Pamph'ila Paniscus, 



Sferopes Paniscus, 

 Cj/clupides Paniscus, 



FaBKICIUS. OCHSENHEIIIER. LeACH. 



Jermyn. Curtis. 

 Donovan. Haworth. 



HUBNER. 



Yillars. 



Fabricius. Stephens. AVood. 



Duncan. 



BoiSDUVAL. 



Hubner. Westvvood. 



This is a very local species, though where it does occur it 

 is found in abundance. 



Sywell Wood, near Northampton, Milton, llockingham Forest, 

 Monks Wood, and Castor Haglands Wood, near Peterborough, 

 Barnwell, Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of Polebrook, 

 Northamptonshire; White Wood and Gamlimgay, Cambridge- 

 shire; near Dartmoor, Devonshire; Clajjham Park Wood and 

 Luton, Bedfordshire, are localities for it. I have heard that 

 in one of these places the "Lord of the Manor" has forbid the 

 "free warren" and "free entry" of the entomologist, but I will 

 not believe that any such interference with the "liberty of 

 the subject" has been perpetrated. 



The end of May or beginning of June is the time when the 

 Spotted Skipper fii'st ajjpears, and in July it is still to be seen. 



The caterpillar feeds on the greater plantain, ( Plantago 

 viajor,) and the crested dog's-tail grass, f Cynosurus cristatus.J 



This Skipper is about an inch and a quarter in the expansion 



