Lbi 



SMALL SKIPPER. 



PLATE LXX. 



Hesperia Linea. Fabricids. Ochsenheimer. 



" " Leach. Curtis. Boisduval. 



Papilio Liiiea, Haworth. Donovan. Harris. 



Thaumas, Esper. Lewin. Stewart. 



" Comma, Barbut. 



" Flavus, MuLLER. 



Pamphila Linea, Fabricius. Stephens. Wood. 



" " Duncan. Westwood. 



TTiymelinus Linea, Hubner. 



This active and lively little species is to be found in woods, or along 

 their borders, and "for whom is the forest so pleasant and gay" as for 

 the quiet insect-hunter, who there sees it in the gladsome sunshine, 

 flitting from flower to flower with its burnished wings? 



It is rather uncommon in Great Bedwyn and Sarum, Wiltshire, as 

 J. W. Lukis, Esq. informs me, but in most parts of England is very 

 abundant, as at Brighton, Charmouth, Bisterne, Sutton-on-Derwent, 

 Buttercrambe ^loor. Sandal Beat, near Doncaster, Shanklin, Looe, 

 Ranmore Common, near Dorking, Surrey, etc. 



It frequents open places in and near woods. 



The fly appears towards the end of June, in the beginning and 

 middle of Jul)', and the middle of August. 



The caterpillar feeds on the mountain air grass, and other grasses. 



This fly a little exceeds an inch in the expanse of its wings. The 

 fore wings are bright bronzed fulvous; the margin paler, edged interiorly 

 by a line of black; the base dusky; there is a narrow oblique black 

 bar near the centre. The hind wings are of the same ground-colour 

 and margin; the upper edge widely bounded with black. 



Underneath, all the central part of the fore wings is also fulvous, 



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