THE SKIPPERS. It I 



spots of pale buff distinctly outlined with dark brown — 

 having a much more ornamental effect than we generally 

 meet with on the under surface in this family — the 

 colouring on that side being usually faint and blurred 

 so as to give a washed-out or wrong-sided appearance. 



The caterpillar is brown, striped and "collared" with 

 yellow ; head black. It feeds on the Plantain, also on 

 Dog's-tail Grass (Cynosurus cristatus). 



The butterfly appears in June, but is very local — being 

 either found plentifully in a place or not at all. It has 

 occurred at Barnwell, and Ashton "Wold, Northants ; 

 Kettering; Sywell "Wood, near Northampton; near 

 Peterborough ; Clapham Park "Wood, and Luton, Bed- 

 fordshire ; Bourne, Lincolnshire ; Monks "Wood, Hunts ; 

 "White "Wood ; Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire ; Stow- 

 market ; Milton ; Eockingham Forest ; Dartmoor ; 

 Netley Abbey ; Charlbury, near Enstone, Oxon. 



THE LTJLWOETH SKIPPER (Pamphila Acteon.) 



(Plate XV. fig. 4, Male ; 4 a, Female.) 



This plainly-coloured little butterfly, prized by collecv 

 tors for its rarity, has, in the male sex, great general 

 resemblance to that of the next species — the common 

 P. Linea — but Action may be distinguished by having 

 the wings clouded over nearly the whole surface with 



