26 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



The larva is dull green, varied with red, with rows of black 

 dots on the back and sides ; the head is black, and the collar 

 white ; it feeds on Coronilla varia, Lotus corniculatus, c., in 

 June and July, and the Butterfly appears in August. 



Generally speaking, this is one of the most abundant species 

 of the Family throughout Europe and Northern and Western 

 Asia, frequenting meadows and hill-sides. In England it is a 

 local insect, but abundant in many places in the southern 

 counties, especially preferring dry chalky districts, where the 

 grass is short. In the Midland and Northern counties it is 

 still more local, and its reported occurrence in Scotland has not 

 been confirmed by recent observers. 



GENUS HYLEPHILA. 



Hykphila, Billberg, Enum. Ins. p. 101 (1820); Scudder, But- 

 terflies East U. S. p. 1625 (1889); Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond. 1893, p. 101. 



Euthymus, Scudder, Rep. Peabody Acad. iv. p. 77 (1872). 



The type of this genus is 



THE GREAT-HEADED SKIPPER. HYLEPHILA PHYL^EUS. 



Papilio phylauS) Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 13, figs. 4, 5 



(1773). 



Papliio colon, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 541, no. 376 (1775). 

 Hesperia phylaiis, Latreille, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 723 (1823) ; Bois- 



duval & Leconte, Lepid. Amer. Sept. pi. 78 (1833). 

 Pamphila bucephalus, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 102 



note ; pi. 10, figs, i, 2 (1828). 

 Hylephila phylaus^ Scudder, Butterflies East U. S. p. 1630 



(1889). 



This is a very common species in both North and South 

 America, and it is mentioned here because two specimens are 



