AUGIADES. 2 7 



said to have been taken near Barnstaple towards the beginning 

 of the century, and the species was described and figured by 

 Stephens as Pamphila bucephalus, though he did not believe it 

 to be British. About the same time several North American 

 Butterflies and Moths seem to have been accidentally intro- 

 duced into England, but they did not establish themselves; 

 and, with one or two exceptions, appear not to have revisited 

 our shores. 



The Great-headed Skipper is not unlike Augiades sylvanns, 

 Esper, but is a stouter insect, with a much larger head,strongl> 

 tufted above, and shorter and more strongly clubbed antennae. 

 The black oblique stripe of raised scales on the fore-wings of the 

 male is bordered below with a blackish patch, and the brown 

 border runs up into the tawny part of the wings of the male in 

 large curves. In the female, the tawny markings are reduced 

 to an irregular row of large tawny spots. The under side is 

 more uniformly coloured than in A. sylvanus. It has no pale 

 spots, but is marked with a row of black spots beyond the 

 middle. The larva is said to feed on crab-grass (Panicum 

 sanguinak) Linn.). 



GENUS AUGIADES. 



Atigiades, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett p. 112 (1816); Wat- 

 son, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 101. 

 The single European species of this genus much resembles 

 Erynnis com/na, from which it may be at once distinguished by 

 the absence of clear white spots on the under surface of the 

 wings. 



THE LARGE SKIPPER. AUGIADES SYLVANUS. 



(Plate LXXL Figs. 3^, 4^,5 underside.) 



Papilio sylvamiS) Esper, Schmett. i. (i) p. 343, pi. 36, fig. i 

 (1778?); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 482-484 (1803 ?). 



