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GRIZZLED SKIPPER. 



Thymele Alveolus. 

 PLATE I. Fig. 1. 



Pap. Alveolus, Hubner. Pap. Malvse, Letvin^ PI. 46, figs. 8, 9. 

 Hesperia Malvse, Jermyn. Id Edition, 154. The Grizzled 



Butterfly, Wilkes The Grizzle Butterfly, Harris" 1 Aurcl. 



PI. 32 Thymele Alveolus, Fabr. Steph. 



THYMELE is known by having antennae slightly 

 elongate, the joints upwards of thirty in number, 

 with the club curved, but not terminating in ai 

 hook. The palpi are rather longer than the head, 

 and thickly clothed with hair; the anterior wings 

 rather short, and rounded on the hinder edge. 



The Grizzled Skipper is a small species, seldom \ 

 much exceeding an inch in the expansion of the 

 wings. The ground colour of the surface is brownish- 

 black, the anterior wings from before the middle to i 

 the apex marked with straw-coloured spots, most of i 

 them of a quadrangular shape ; the fringe the same 

 colour as the spots, and barred with brownish-black. 

 The under wings have some straw-coloured spots 

 towards the middle anteriorly, and an irregular 

 macular band not far from the hinder margin ; th* 



