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PAPILIO COMMA. 

 Pearl Skipper Butterfly 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae clubbed at the ends. Wings erect when at reft. Fly- 

 by day. 



Plebeii Urbicola, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings entire, divaricated, brown, having a black ftreak along the 

 middle of the anterior pair. Beneath, fpotted with white. 



Papilio Comma : alis integerrimis divaricatis fulvis: pun&is albis 



lineolaque nigra. Linn. Syji. Nat. p. 793. 256. 

 Hesperia Comma : Fab. Ent. Syji. t. 3. p. i.p. 325. 233. 

 JPafilfo Comma : Wien. Ferz. 159. 4. 



. In the beginning of Auguft, 1772, a brood of thefe Infe&s were 

 taken near Lewes in Suffex, by the late Mr. Green; and we believe 

 no other fpecimens have been taken fince that period. 



It is not very unlike the Papilio Sylvanus of Fabricius, but -nay 

 be readily diftinguifhed from it by the fquare fpots on the under-fide 

 faeing perfectly white. 



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