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CHEQUERED SKIPPER 



PampW.a, Panisctts. 

 PLATE I. Pi ? 3. 



Hesperia Paniscus, Fair Pap. Paniscus, Don. viii. PI. 254, 



fig. 1 Pap. Brontes, Hubner Chequered Skipper, Ha~ 



worth, Jermyn. Pamphila Paniscus, Steph. 



IN PAMPHILA the palpi are short and compressed, 

 covered with scales and hairs ; the antennae rather 

 short, the joints not amounting to thirty ; the club 

 straight, abrupt, and spindle-shaped, without a hook 

 at the extremity in P. Paniscus and Linea, but 

 having an acute hook in P. Sylvanus and Comma. 

 The anterior wings are somewhat longer than in the 

 preceding genus, and the hinder pair have a slight 

 projection at the anal angle, like a rudimentary 

 tail. The head and thorax are equally robust as in 

 Thymele, or rather more so ; and the males of some 

 of the species are distinguished by having an oblique 

 abbreviated black line on the disk of the anterior 

 wings. 



The Chequered Skipper expands about an inch 

 and two or three lines. The surface is brownish- 

 black, marked with numerous bright fulvous spots. 



