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GRIZZLED SKIPPER. 



PLATE LXVI. 



I HAVE taken this species in plenty at Pinhay ClifF, Devonshire, an 

 "old familiar spot," near Lyme Rcnis, Dorsetshire; in Yorkshire, at 

 Biittcrcrambe Moor, Allerthorpe Common, and Sutton-on-Derwent. 

 Other localities for it are Sywell Wood, near NortharajHon, Barnwell 

 and Ashton AA'old, and the neighbourhood of Polebrook, Northampton- 

 shire; Brighton, in Sussex; Raydon Wood, very abundantly, and other 

 woods, near Colchester, Essex; Great Bedwyn and Sarum, \\'iltshire; 

 Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight, and Bisterne, Hampshire; Bewdlcy, 

 Worcestershire, as also in various parts of Kent, Hertford, Durham, 

 Cambridge, Northumberland, and the south of Scotland. 



It appears the end of May, and beginning of June. 



The caterpillar feeds on the teazle, {Dipsacus sijlvestris.) 



In this very pretty little species, which is just about an inch in 

 width, tlie fore wings are very dark brownish black, marked with 



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