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coidal veins and the branches of the median vein ; the whole forming a series 

 radiating from the discoidal cell in so regular a manner, that Dr. Herrich- 

 Schaffer regards this group as the type of the Diurnal Lepidoptera on this 

 account. The more or less obsolete character of the discoidal vein of the 

 hind-wings, and the arrangement of the basal portion of the veins are further 

 peculiarities of the family. The peculiar distinction indicative of the sexes, 

 afforded by the structure of the fore-legs in many of the preceding genera, is 

 here wanting ; and it is consequently difficult, except in those species where 

 the wings afford sexual distinctions, to determine the sexes of different 

 individuals. In some, Tages, &c., the fore-margin of the fore-wings is re- 

 curved in the males, the enclosed space being thickly ^clothed with pale coloured 

 down. In others, Linea, Comma, Sylvanus, &c., there is a thickened and 

 oblique ridge on the middle of the fore-wings. Hubner divided the family 

 into forty-two genera or sub-genera. In Britain we have four, viz. : 

 Cyclopides, Ilesperia, Syrichthus, and Nisoniades. 



GENUS XXI. CYCLOPIDES. 

 Hubner. 



CYCLOPIDES, the sons of Neptune who assisted Yulcan in forging Jupiter's 

 thunderbolts. The genus was also named Carterocephalis by Lederer, and 

 Sleropes by Boisduval. The species of this genus or sub-genus differ from 

 those of the next in the differently formed club of the antennae, by having a 

 more slender body, and especially by the want of an oblique black patch 

 across the middle of the wings of the male, and the identity of colouring in 

 the sexes. A more important character, however, consists in the posterior 

 tibia? possessing only a pair of spurs at the tip. There are only a small 

 number of species known, four of them occurring in Europe. 



PANISCUS. 



Chequered Skipper. 



PANISCUS, Fab. Panis'cus, diminutive of Pan, the God of Shepherds ; 

 also named Paltemon by Pallas, which latter name is sometimes adopted. 



This pretty species is generally about an inch and. a quarter in the expan- 

 sion of its wings, which on the upperside are of a rich dark brown colour, 

 chequered with orange tawny spots. The underside is similar but paler. 

 The spots differ in size in different specimens, but otherwise it does not 

 appear to vary, nor is there any material difference between the sexes. The 

 aiitennjje are of a bright fulvous yellow beneath, and annulated with black and 



