SMALL SKIPPER. J 1 7 



and other graminwe. The chrysalis is of a yel- 

 lowish-green colour. The fly appears in July, and 

 is frequent in many parts of the country, both in 

 England and Scotland. 



LARGE SKIPPER. 



Pampliila SyivaniAS. 

 PLATE II. Fig. 1. 



Hesperia Sylvanus, Fabr. Pap. Sylvanus, Lewin, PI. 46, 

 figs. 13 ; Don. viii. PI. 254, fig. 2 <J The Large Skipper, 

 Harris' 1 Aurel. PI. 42, f. h Pamphila Sylvanus, Steph. 



EXPANSION of the wings from fourteen to sixteen 

 lines ; the colour fulvous, with the nervures and the 

 hinder extremity of the wings brown, the latter 

 colour deepening into a blackish line round the 

 outer edge. The anterior wings have a few small 

 quadrate fulvous spots in the dusky ground towards 

 the tip, and the hinder pair very indistinct fulvous 

 spots or clouds posteriorly, the colour sometimes 

 diffused over a considerable portion of the disk. 

 On the under side the upper wings are yellow, 

 inclining to green at the tip, and dusky black at the 

 base ; the superficial spots towards the apex some- 

 times appearing, but very faintly marked. The 

 hinder wings are greenish-yellow, with a curved 

 series of pale quadrate spots, emarginate posteriorly, 



