20 LLOYD S NATURAL HISTORY. 



whether Urbicola (which must date from Linnaeus, and not 

 from Barbut, if used at all) is admissible as a generic name. 



THE SMALL SKIPPER. ADOP^EA THAUMAS. 



(Plate LXX. Fig. 4; pi. LXXL Fig. I.) 



Papilio thaiimas, Hufnagel, Berl. Mag. ii. p. 62, no. 10 (1766) ; 

 Von Rottenberg, Naturf. vi. p. 4 (1775) ; Espcr, Schmett. 

 i. (i) p. 344, pi. 36, figs. 2, 3 (1777) ; i. (2) p. 25, pi. 98, figs. 

 5-10(1790?). 



Papilio linea, Denis & SchirTermiiller, Syst. Verz. Schmett. 

 Wien.p. 160, no. 5 (1776) ; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 

 485-487(1803?). 

 9 Papilio venula, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 666, 669 



(1818?). 



Pamphila tinea, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 101 (1828) ; 



Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. i. p. 175, pi. 38, figs, i, la-e 



(1893); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. i. pp. 139, 195, 



pi. 1 7, fig. 3(1886). 



Pamphila thaumas, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 66, 



pi. 15, fig. 14 (1879). 

 Hesperia thaumas, Lang, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 350, 



pi. 81, fig. 9 ; pi. 80, fig. 5 (transf.) (1884). 

 The Small Skipper measures from an inch to an inch and a 

 quarter across the wings, which are of a light fulvous or tawny 

 above, with a black line at the base of the pale fringes ; on the 

 fore-wings of the male is generally a rather broad black streak. 

 The hind-wings are greenish ash-colour beneath, broadly tinged 

 with fulvous along the inner-margin. The antennae are blackish, 

 ringed with pale yellow, and yellowish beneath ; the tip of the 

 club is fulvous. 



The larva is green, with a darker dorsal stripe divided by a 

 pale thread, and two yellowish-white lines on the sides ; it feeds 

 on grass. The pupa is yellowish-green. 



