HESPERIA LINEOLA. 



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coincides. It was already known to have a wide range in 

 Europe, extending from Scandinavia in the north to the 

 extreme south, and even beyond the Mediterranean into 

 North Africa. 



With regard to localities, those at present known are 

 Leigh, Harwich, and Benfleet, Essex; Shoeburyness; South- 

 end; Fens of Huntingdon; Cambridgeshire; near Sudbury, 

 Suffolk ; as well as in Jersey. 



Each female lays on an average at least thirty to forty 

 eggs, which she deposits in July or August inside the 

 sheath formed at the junction of the grass-blades with the 

 stem. The larvae appear in the middle of the following 

 April and feed on grass, a genus that they take to readily 

 being Triticum. Towards the end of June the pupal state 



FIG. 251. HESPERIA LINEOLA. 



FIG. 252. HESPERIA THAUMAS. 



is assumed and lasts three weeks or rather less, the 

 imagines appearing about mid-July. 



Mr. F. W. Hawes, to whose description of the early 

 stages of lineola in The Entomologist, xxv., p. 177, we 

 are indebted for the following, says that the larva is 

 yellowish-green, having a rather broad dorsal stripe of 

 darker green, which stripe is continued as a distinct 

 brown mark over the head to the mouth ; the head 

 has also two other marks, one on each side of the 

 central brown one. There are two thin subdorsal yellow 

 stripes, and a light line traverses each side just below the 



