SKIPPERS. 



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bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus comiculatus), and 

 other leguminous plants. It has a large black 

 head and a cylindrical olive-green body, with 

 a linear white spot on each side of the tenth 

 and eleventh segments, very near the ventral 

 surface. Buhner* s figure. 



TIME OP APPEARANCE July and August. 



LOCALITIES. Unknown in Ireland, the Isle 

 of Man, or Scotland. It is by no means gene- 

 rally distributed in England, but is common 

 in some localities, more particularly in chalk 

 districts of the south and east. 



Berkshire. Burghfield, near Reading C. 

 S. Bird. 



Buckinghamshire. Aston Clinton H. H. 

 Crewe ; Hal ton Joseph Greene. 



Cambridgeshire. Newmarket Heath F. 

 Bond ; common in the chalk districts about 

 Fulbourn and Newmarket Thomas Brown. 



Devonshire. Rare ; I took one specimen 

 in 1856 near Wimbury, along the embank- 

 ment road ; Plymouth, Exmouth J. J. 

 Reading. 



Dorsetshire. Blandford Racecourse and 

 Badbury Rings J. C. Dale. 



Gloucestershire. Rodborough Common, one 

 specimen J. M. Musgrave. 



Hampshire. Portsdown W. Buckler ; 

 Kimpton Rev. J. T. Rudd ; Peterfield 

 Henry Moncrenff ; Lyndhurst, in New Forest 

 H. Ramsay Cox. 



Hertfordshire. Berkhampstead Common, 

 one specimen G. H. Raynor. 



Kent. Boxley Hills, near Maidstone ; not 

 very common H. W. Greensted ; on the 

 coast about Dover W. 0. Hammond. 



Northamptonshire. Rare ; in a rough field 

 adjoining Bullnose Coppice, in August Wil- 

 liam Bree. 



Surrey. Croydon and Boxhill W. Machin; 

 on all the chalk downs in the Croydon district 

 E. Newman. 



Sussex. Common on Mailing Hill Edward 

 Jenner ; Hollingbury Coombe W. Buckler ; 

 very plentiful on the chalk, Bible Bottom ; 

 Cliff Hill is a favourite locality C. V. G. 

 Levitt ; Brighton W. H. Draper. 



Wiltshire. One specimen near Martinsell, 

 in 1865 T, A, Preston. 



Yorkshire. Scarborough, York Edwin 

 Birchall. 



65 Lul worth Skipper (Hesperia, Action). Male and 

 Female. 



65. LULWORTH SKIPPER. The antennae are 

 slender at the base, and gradually clubbed but 

 not hooked at the tip ; they are brown above 

 and gray beneath, slightly dotted or annulated 

 with brown, the extremity of the club beneath 

 being bright fulvous : the wings are dusky 

 fulvous, with a narrow brown margin and a 

 pale fringe : the male has an oblique and 

 slightly raised but slender intensely black 

 line, extending from the middle of the wing 

 nearly to the inner margin at its base ; and 

 the female has nine rather pale fulvous spots 

 near the middle of the fore wings, and ar- 

 ranged somewhat in the form of a crescent ; 

 this quasi-crescent opens towards the costal 

 margin. 



LIFE HISTORY. At page 164 of the tenth 

 volume of the " Intelligencer," Professor 

 Zeller gives the following interesting par- 

 ticulars of thia species : " The CATERPILLAR 

 feeds in June on the wood small-reed (Calamo- 

 grestis epigejos), chiefly under the shade of fir- 

 trees ; it makes deep notches on the edges of 

 the leaves, which help to betray its proximity. 

 It feeds in the evening and at night, resting 

 in the daytime extended on the flat surface 

 of a leaf. It is of the form usual in the 

 genus, and it has also two snowy spots, as in 

 the caterpillars of Lineola and Sylvanus. It 

 is pale green, with a darker dorsal line edged 

 with a yellowish line on each side ; and en- 

 closing a paler central line. Along the side 

 is a narrow yellow line above and a broad one 

 beneath ; the two yellow lines on the back 



