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 larvae 

 feed on the Slender False Brome-grass (Brachypodiuvi 

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

 probably on other grasses also. The winter is passed 



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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 



