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DINGY SKIPPER. 



PLATE LXVII. 



Hesperia Tages, 

 Papilio Tagcs, 



it n 



Thymele Tages, 

 ti it 



Thanaos Tages, 

 Nisoniades Tages, 



Fabricius. Leach. Jermyn. 



LiNNJEUs. Lewin. Haworth, 



Harris. 



Fabricius. Stephens. Duncan. 



Wood. 



BoiSDtrVAL. 



HUBNER. WeSTWOOD. 



I HAVE also captured this Skipper in plenty near Chartnouth and 

 Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, and Devonshire; in Yorkshire at Butter- 

 crambe Moor, and Sutton-on-Derwent. It is met with at Barnwell 

 and Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of Polebrook, Northampton- 

 shire; Brighton, in Sussex; and is very abundant in Raydou Wood, 

 and Wintlcsham Wood near Hadleigh, Essex; near Great Bedwyn and 

 Sarutn, Wiltshire; and, in fact, in most parts of England. In Ireland 

 it is plentiful at Aidrahan, near Gal way, as A. G. More, Esq. tells 

 me. It is taken also in Scotland in different parts. In Wales on the 

 sandhills near Llandudno. 



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 buttercup on which it alights. 



This plain-coloured insect occurs at different periods, in May, .June, 

 and July. 



The caterpillar feeds on the bird's-foot lotus, (Lotus carniculatus , j 

 and the field eryngo. 



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



a quarter. The fore wings arc blackish brown, with three cross-waved 



bands of grey, the middle one the widest, and most distinct. In some 



specimens the two colours contrast together much more markedly than 



in others. The margin is grey, ed^ed on its inside by a black line. 



