22 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



in June, and the Butterfly appears in July. " Pupa long and 

 rather slender, yellowish-green. In an open network cocoon 

 among grass-stems. About four days before emergence the 

 wing-cases of the pupa assume a golden-brown colour, and the 

 eye-covers a brilliant crimson, changing in two days to black ; 

 the tips of the antennae-cases also black. Attached to a carpet 

 of silk by a silken girth and the anal hooks, within the chamber 

 formed by the larva among the grass stems." (Barrett.} 



This Butterfly is common throughout the greater part of 

 Central and Southern Europe, the Mediterranean Region, and 

 Northern and Central Asia. It is found in dry grassy places, 

 along the edges of corn-fields, &c. It has been taken casually 

 in England for some years, but was always confounded with 

 A. thaumaS) until 1888, when Mr. F. W. Hawes took a series 

 ^f both species in Essex, and recognised specimens of A. 

 lineola among them. It appears to be met with here and there 

 in most of the counties on the South Coast of England, as 

 well as in Cambridgeshire and Nottinghamshire, but chiefly in 

 Essex and Suffolk. In Germany I have generally found it at 

 least as abundant as A. than mas , if not more so. 



THE LULWORTH SKIPPER. ADOP^EA AC'IVEON. 



(Plate LXXI. Figs. 6. 8 rf ; 7 ? .) 



Papilla acf&on, Von Rottenberg, Naturforscher, vi. p. 30, 

 no. 18 (1775) ; Esper, Schmett. i. (i), p. 345, pi. 36, fig. 

 4 (1776); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 488-490 (1803). 

 Vesperia acicwn, Latreille, Enc. Method, ix. p. 772, no. 120 

 (1823); Curtis, Brit. Ent. x. pi. 442 (1833); Newman, 

 Brit. Butterflies, ii. p. 173 (1881); Lang, Butterflies Kur. 

 p. 352, pi. Si, fig. ii (1884); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. i. 

 p. 283, pi. 37, figs. 2, 2a-d (1893). 



Pamphila actceon, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 383 

 (1835) ; Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 66 (1879). 



