THE DINGY SKIPPER. 



Thymde Tages. 

 PLATE I. Fig. 2. 



Pap. Tages, Linn. ; Letuin, PL 54, figs. 3 and 4 Hesperia 



Tages, Leach, Jermyn The Dingy Skipper, Harris'' Auret, 

 PI. 34 Thymele Tagee, Siepk. 



THIS species is generally a good deal larger than 

 the preceding ; the colour of the surface rather dark 

 brown faintly clouded with ash-grey, with a few 

 scattered white points, and a continuous series along 

 the margin of all the wings. The fringe is greyish- 

 brown, indistinctly denticulated ; the under side 

 tawny-grey, with ill-defined white spots, especially 

 towards the hinder side of the inferior wings. The 

 antenna? are black, ringed with grey. 



The caterpillar is bright green, with a yellow 

 stripe dotted with black along the back, and others 

 of a similar description on the sides ; the head 

 brown. It is said to feed on the Eryngium cam- 

 pestre and birds'-foot trefoil (Lotus comiculatus), 

 the latter being probably its most ordinary food, as 

 the insect is frequently found in districts where the 



