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PEARL SKIPPER. 



Pimvhila Ckvima. 

 PLATE II. F-ff. 2. 



Pap. Comma, Linn.; Lewin, PL 45, fig. 1,2; Don.'ix. PI. 295?. 

 Hesperia Comma, Fabr The Pearl Skipper, Harris 

 Silver-spotted Skipper, Jermyn Pamphila Comma, Steph. 



ABOUT the size of the preceding, sometimes rather 

 less : the male fulvous above, more or less suffused 

 with brown towards the hinder margin of the wings, 

 the disk of the primary pair with a linear black 

 mark, having silvery scales in the centre, and be- 

 yond this, towards the apex, a series of quadrate 

 whitish spots forming an irregular semicircle : the 

 hinder wings with irregular fulvous spots posteriorly, 

 and the disk more or less suffused with fulvous. 

 Beneath, the anterior wings are greenish-grey, the 

 centre pale yellow, the apex with a series of white 

 spots, corresponding in their position to those on 

 the surface; the hinder wings greenish-grey, with 

 nine white quadrangular spots, three of them 

 grouped towards the base, the others forming ,a 

 curved transverse band. The fringe of all the 

 wings is pale, spotted with brown at the base on 



