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SILVER-SPOTTED SIvIPPER. 



PKAllL SKIPPER. 



PLATE LXIX. 



Hesperia Comma, Fabricius. Ochsenheimer. Curtis. 



" " BOISDUVAL. Zetterstedt. 



" Sylvanus, {/iviale,) Jermyn. 



Papilio Comma, LiNNiEUS. Haworth. Lewin. 



" " Donovan. Hubner. 



Pamphila Comma, Fabricius. Stephens. Duncan. 



" " Wood. Westwood. 



Augiades Comma, Hubner. 



"Ya!" said Suttum to Mr. Layard, as he waded his mare through 

 the flowers of a thousand hues, with which the vast plains of Mesopotamia 

 are carpeted, and the serene air perfumed, "Ya! what do the dwellers 

 in cities know of true happiness; they have never seen grass or flowers! 

 What worldly delight has God given to us equal to this? It is the 

 only thing worth living for." Poor Suttum! he has since, it appears, 

 fallen in a foray, but if he has a monument, let the epitaph inscribed 

 upon it be, that he was a naturalist, and had a fellow feeling with 

 every other lover of nature. 



This species is plentiful near Newmarket, and at Gograagog Park, 

 near Cambridge, and Mr. Dale records the neighbourhood of Hull as 

 another locality for it; Barnwell and Ashton Wold, and the neighbour- 

 hood of Polebrook, Northamptonshire; near Dover, Kent; Brough, in 

 Yorkshire; Old Sarum, Wiltshire; Croydon, Surrey; Lewes and 

 Brighton, Sussex, arc also its habitats. 



It is taken in the end of .July, and the beginning and middle of 

 August. 



The caterpillar "feeds on the various-coloured coronilla, {Corotiilla 

 varia,) on the continent." 



