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spots of pale buff distinctly outlined with dark brown 

 having a much more ornamental effect than we generally 

 meet with on the under surface in this family the 

 colouring on that side being usually faint and blurred 

 so as to give a washed-out or wrong-sided appearance. 



The caterpillar is brown, striped and "collared" with 

 yellow ; head black. It feeds on the Plantain, also on 

 Dog's-tail Grass (Gynosurus cristatus). 



The butterfly appears in June, but is very local being 

 either found plentifully in a place or not at all. It has 

 occurred at Barnwell, and Ashton Wold, Nbrthants ; 

 Kettering ; Sywell Wood, near Northampton ; near 

 Peterborough ; Clapham Park Wood, and Luton, Bed- 

 fordshire ; Bourne, Lincolnshire ; Monks Wood, Hunts ; 

 White Wood ; Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire ; Stow- 

 market ; Milton ; Eockingham Forest ; Dartmoor ; 

 Netley Abbey ; Charlbury, near Enstone, Oxon. 



THE LULWOETH SKIPPER (PampUla Actceon.) 

 (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 



