222 THE BOOK OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



C. palaemon, Pall., C. paniscus, Fabr. (Chequered 

 Skipper) (Figs. 265 and 266), is not a common butterfly, 

 its home being in a few eastern and east-midland counties 

 Lincoln, Suffolk, Huntingdon, Northampton, Notting- 

 ham, and Oxford. It also occurs in the south, in 

 Hampshire, and has been reported from North Wales. 



The eggs are laid and hatched in June. The larv;t 

 feed on the Slender False Brome-grass (Brvckypodium 

 sylvaticum\ the Hairy Brome-grass (JBromus asper\ and 

 probably on other grasses also. The winter is passed 



265 266 



CARTEROCEPHALUS PAL^MON. 



in the larval stage, the pupal state being taken in April 

 The perfect insects appear about May. 



The larva (Fig. 265), which is over lin. in length when 

 full-grown, is pale bluish-green in colour, with several 

 longitudinal lines, many of them indistinct. The chief 

 lines are a darker green dorsal one with whitish edging, 

 then a bread paler green one, next a dark green one, 

 and then a whitish one. The head and second and 

 third segments have dark marks at first, but they 

 become green eventually. During hibernation the larva 



