PECK'S SKIPPER. 315 



ers ; fore wings in the female without the tawny front edge 

 and black line ; hind wings, in both sexes, with a central, 

 curved, tawny-yellow band ; wings beneath bright red- 

 brown ; the first pair blackish from the middle to the inner 

 edge, and spotted as on the upper side ; hind wings with a 

 yellow dot in the middle, and a curved row of seven bright 

 yellow spots behind it. 



Expands from 1/^ to Ij inch. 



This very distinct and strongly marked skipper does not 

 seem to have been described before. For a specimen of the 

 male I am indebted to the Rev. L. W. Leonard, to whom I 

 have dedicated the species. The females I have taken in the 

 beginning of September. 



Hesperia Sassacus. Sassacus Skipper. 



Dark brown above ; all the wings with a tawny-yellow 

 spot occupying the greater part of the middle of each, and 

 with two or three little detached spots of the sanie color near 

 the extremity of the first pair ; beneath ochre-yellow, with 

 small pale yellow spots near the tip, corresponding to those 

 on the upper side of the fore wings ; and on the hind wings 

 seven small, square, pale yellow spots, namely, one before the 

 middle and the others in pairs behind it. 



Expands IJ inch. 



Of this skipper I have seen only the female, which was 

 taken in Cambridge in the month of June. Its upper side 

 is very much like that of the Hobomok skipper, but it diffei's 

 from it in the color and markings of the under side, and 

 seems not to have been described before. I have therefore 

 given it, as a new species, the name of an Indian warrior. 



Hesperia PecMus, Kirbj. Peck's Skipper. (Fig. 139.) 



Dark brown above ; fore wings with a row of contiguous 

 tawny-yellow spots, extending from the middle of the inner 

 margin towards the tip, where the spots are more distant, 

 and a tawny line from the base to the middle, behind which, 



