146 GRIZZLED SKIPPEB. 



about fourteeen small white spots; the base is powdered with white, 

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

 with the black of the ground-colour. The hind wings are of the same 

 colour, and marked in a similar manner, but 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 

 considered 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, 

 which 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. 



