122 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS 



The perfect insect appears in July, and frequents 

 thickets and open places in woods. 



Closely allied to this species is the Lulworth Skipper 

 (Pamphila Action), which is almost entirely confined 

 to one locality in Dorsetshire, Lulworth Cove. It 

 appears in the perfect state in August, and might easily 

 be overlooked for Pamphila linea, but the ground-colour 

 of the wings is darker, and beyond the middle of the 

 fore-wings is a curved row of fulvous spots. 



FAMILY V. HESPERID^E. 



PAMPHILA 87LVANU8. THE LAEGE 

 SKIPPER 



Generally common throughout the country, and with 

 a more extended northern range than Pamphila linea. 



The expansion of the wings is about 1J inch. All 

 the wings are of a rich brown, with numerous indistinct 

 fulvous blotches and spots ; in the male, on the fore- 

 wings there is an oblique darker patch from the middle 

 of the inner margin. 



The larva is of a dull green, with a darker dorsal line ; 

 it is dotted with black; the head is brown; on the 

 underside of the tenth and eleventh segments are snow- 

 white transverse spots ; it feeds in May on meadow soft 

 grass (Holcus lanatus) and various other grasses. 



The perfect insect appears on the wing at the end 

 of July and in August ; it frequents thickets and the 

 borders of woods. 



There is one other Skipper closely allied to the pre- 

 ceding, the Pearl Skipper (Pamphila comma). It is, I 

 believe, exclusively confined to chalky or limestone 

 localities, but is generally very plentiful where it occurs ; 



