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SPOTTED SKIPPER. 



CHEQUERED SKIPPER. 



PLATE LXXII. 



Hesperia Paniscus, 



(( (t 



Papilio Paniscus, 

 " Brontes, 

 " Sylvius, 



Pamphila Paniscus, 



Stn'opcs Paniscus, 

 Cyclopides Paniscus, 



Fabricius. Ochsenheimer. Leach. 

 Jermyn. Curtis. 

 Donovan. Hawokth. 



HUBNER. 

 ViLLARS. 



Fabricius. Stephens. Wood. 



Duncan. 



boisduval. 



HuRNER. Westwood. 



This is a very local species, though where it does occur it is found 

 in abundance. 



Sywell Wood, near Northampton, Milton, Rockingham Forest, Monks 

 Wood, and Castor Haglands Wood, near Peterboiough, Barnwell, 

 Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of Polebrook, Northamptonshire ; 

 White Wood and Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire; near Dartmoor, Devon- 

 shire; Linwood, near Market Raseu, Lincolnshire; Newark, Notts.; 

 Clapham Park Wood and Luton, Bedfordshire, are localities for it. 

 I have heard that in one of these places the " Lord of the Manor" 

 has forbid the "free warren" and "free entry" of the entomologist, 

 but I am unwilling to believe that any such interference with the 

 "liberty of the subject" has been perpetrated. 



The end of May or beginning of June is the time when the Spotted 

 Skipper first appears, and in July it is still to be seen. 



The caterpillar feeds on the greater plantain, {Plantago major,) 

 and the crested dog's-tail grass, [Cynosurus cristatus.) 



