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spots of pale buff distinctly outlined with, dark brown 

 having a much more ornamental effect than we generally 

 meet with on the under surface in this family the 

 colouring on that side being usually faint and blurred 

 ao as to give a washed-out or wrong-sided appearance. 



The caterpillar is brown, striped and "collared" with 

 yellow ; head black. It feeds on the Plantain, also on 

 Dog's-tail Grass (Cynosurus cristatus). 



The butterfly appears in June, but is very local being 

 either found plentifully in a place or not at all. It has 

 occurred at Barnwell, and Ashton "Wold, Northants ; 

 Kettering ; Sywell "Wood, near Northampton ; near 

 Peterborough ; Clapham Park Wood, and Luton, Bed- 

 fordshire; Bourne, Lincolnshire; Monks "Wood, Hunts; 

 White Wood ; Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire ; Stow- 

 market ; Milton ; Rockingham Forest ; Dartmoor j 

 Netley Abbey ; Charlbury, near Ens tone, Oxon. 



THE LULWORTH SKIPPER. (Pamphila Acteon.} 

 (Plate XV. fig. 4, Male ; 4 a } Female.) 



THIS plainly-coloured little butterfly, prized by collec- 

 tors for its rarity, has, in the male sex, great general 

 resemblance to that of the next species the -common 

 P. Linea but Actceon may be distinguished by having 

 the wings clouded over nearly the whole surface with 



