118 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



fordsliire ; Bourne, Lincolnshire ; Monks Wood, Hunts ; 

 White Wood ; Ganilingay, Cambridgeshire ; Stow- 

 market ; Milton ; Eockingham Forest ; Dartmoor ; 

 Netley Abbey ; Charlbury, near Enstone, Oxon. 



THE LULWOETH SKIPPER (PampUla Action.) 

 (Plate XV. fig. 4, Male ; 4 a, Female.) 



THIS plainly-coloured little butterfly, prized by collec- 

 tors for its rarity, has, in the male sex, great general 

 resemblance to that of the next species the common 

 P. Linea but Actceon may be distinguished by having 

 the wings clouded over nearly the whole surface with 

 dull brown, having something of a greenish cast. The 

 female is, however, very different from that of Linea, 

 having all the wings of uniform dingy brown, excepting 

 a crescent-shaped row of tawny spots near the tip of 

 the front wing, and a more or less distinct streak of -the 

 same colour near the centre. 



The male Actceon is further distinguished from the 

 female by the possession of a blackish streak near the 

 centre of his front wing. 



Beneath, the wings are clouded obscurely with tawny 

 yellow and a dingy brownish tint, the yellow tinge pre- 

 dominating in the male. 



The caterpillar is unknown. 



The butterfly appears in July and August, but is so 

 extremely limited in its local range that it is only to be 

 met with, so far as is known, in three spots all on the 

 same line of coast viz. Lulworth Gove, Dorsetshire ; 

 the "Burning Cliff," about five miles nearer Wey- 

 mouth along the coast ; and at Sidmouth, Devonshire. 

 At the present time I believe the "Burning Cliff" is 

 the locality where the insect is found in the greatest 

 plenty. It is to be looked for on the rough broken 

 ground covered with weeds that slopes down to the 

 shore on this coast. 



Mr. Humphreys states that in 1835 he saw it in 

 great abundance at Shenstone, near Lichfield. 



