SKIPPERS. 



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smoky -brown, with a pale interval opposite 

 each white spot in the hind margin. 



LIFE HISTORY. The EGGS are laid in May 

 on the bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus comiculaius} ; 

 the CATERPILLAK is figured by Hubner as of a 

 pale green colour, and as having on the side 

 two yellow stripes, each of which is sur- 

 mounted with a series of black spots; the 

 lower series appear to represent spiracles. 

 The CHRYSALIS is smooth, without angles, the 

 thoracic segments being swollen and of a dark 

 green colour ; the body is tinged with rosy 

 red ; it is conical and pointed. 



TIME OP APPEARANCE. May : it is particu- 

 larly plentiful in flowery chalk banks in 

 Kent, Surrey, and Sussex. 



LOCALITIES. Mr. Birchall mentions it as 

 having been noticed in Galway, but it h*s 

 not been recorded from the Isle of Man. 

 Dr. Buchanan "White reports it from Kirkcud- 

 brightshire, Inverness-shire, and Ross-shire, 

 but he does not mention it as inhabiting 



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Perthshire. In England it occurs in every 

 county list I have received. 



62. Chequered Skipper (Hesperia Paniscus). 



62. CHEQUERED SKIPPER. The antomise 

 are very slender at the base, and gradually 

 but decidedly clubbed at the tip, which is 

 not hooked ; they are bright fulvous yellow 

 beneath, and annulated with black and yellow 

 above ; the club is brilliantly yellow beneath : 

 the costal margin of the fore wings is very 

 straight and the tip pointed, but not acutely : 

 the colour of all the wings is dark brown; the 

 fore wings have about ten large and conspicu- 

 ous jellow spots on the disk, besides a series 

 of eight roundish and indistinct yellow spots 

 parallel with the hind margin : the hind 

 wings have three conspicuous yellow spots 

 about the middle, forming something of a 

 triangle, as well as a series of seven yellow 

 spots parallel with the hind margin : the 

 fringe is brown. 



LIFE HISTORY. Duponchel describes the 

 CATERPILLAR as brown with two yellow stripes 

 down the back ; the head is black, and the 

 second segment bordered with yellow. It 

 feeds on the broad-leaved plantain (Plantago 

 major). 



TIME OF APPEARANCE. June. 



LOCALITIES. I find no record of this little 

 butterfly as an inhabitant of Ireland, Scot- 

 land, or the Isle of Mar). In England it 

 seems confined to a very few midland coun- 

 ties and one southern county. 



Hampshire. Mr. Baker mentions this in 

 Wise's "New Forest." I have not seen a 

 specimen C. G. B. Corbin ; South wick 

 Henry Moncreaff; I have this year taken 

 Hcftperia Paniscus at Netley Abbey, near 

 Southampton JRobertHarvey,"Intelligencer." 



Huntingdonshire. Monk's Wood and other 

 woods F. Bond; Monk's Wood in profusion 

 Henry Doubleday, " Entomolgist" Vol. i., 

 p. 156. 



Lincolnshire. Bourne Stainton's" Manual.' 

 Northamptonshire. Castor Hanglands, near 

 Peterborough F. Bond ; near Towcester 

 Hamlet Clarke ; in profusion in a wood near 

 Oundle H. Doubleday ; not uncommon in the 

 county ; Barnwell and Ashton Wolds in May 



William Bree ; I have taken this insect 

 very freely in the neighbourhood of Kettering 



W. Sturgess, "Intelligencer." 

 Nottinghamshire. It occurs in a wood near 



Newark ; also in Eopsley Wood, near Gran- 

 tham H. E. Brameld ; Stapleford, and near 

 Newark, rare George Gascoyne. 



Oxfordshire. Wychwood Forest W. H. 

 Draper. 



Suffolk. Stowmarket Staintoris "Manual." 



63. LARGE SKIPPER. The antennae are 

 clubbed and hooked at the tip : the shaft 

 is brown ; the club brownish above and ful- 

 vous beneath : in the male, the basal half 

 of the fore wings is fulvous, the outer half 

 fulvous brown; but in the middle of the 

 fulvous part is a raised and incrassated black 

 line, which begins near the middle of the 

 wing and ends near the hind margin ; near 

 the tip of the wing are six fulvous spots, 



