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GENUS I. BUTTERFLIES. 



S E C. X. S P. LXIII. LARGE SKIPPER. 

 PI. 46. 



Sylvanus. Linnœus. 

 . Large Skipper. Harris. 

 This is a very common butterfly. There are two broods of them in the fummer : the 

 firft makes its appearance the middle of May, and the fécond is on the wing in Auguft. 

 It frequents woods, heaths, and lanes. Its flight is very fhort ; but when on a bum or 

 fhrub, it is almoft conftantly in motion, {kipping, or leaping, from leaf to leaf. From 

 this habit, common to all the flies of this feftion, it derives the appellation of fkipper. 

 With the caterpillars of this fpecies we are not well acquainted. The male fly is fliown 

 at fig. 1 ; the female at fig. 2 ; and the under fide, at fig. 3. 



S P. LXIV. SPOTTED SKIPPER. 



Malvaî. Linnœus. 

 Grizzle. Harris. 



The caterpillars of this butterfly feed on the leaves of the bramble bufhes. They web 

 the edges of the leaf together, and from this cover they come out a little way to feed ; 

 but on the leaft motion of the leaf they return to their retreat, and if they be much 

 alarmed, they drop to the ground. The end of April they are full fed, as at fig. 6 ; 

 when they enclofe fhemfelves in a flight web, under cover of a leaf, and there change to 

 chryfalis: fee fig. 7. In this date they remain about fourteen days, as the fly comes out 

 on the wing the beginning of May. This butterfly is pretty common in the dry parts of 

 woods and heaths. The upper part is delineated at fig. 8 : the under fide is fhewn at fig. 9. 



S P. LXV. SCARCE SPOTTED SKIPPER. 



Fritillum. Fabricius. 

 This butterfly is but feldom met with in England, and our knowledge of its manners is 

 confined to the taking a few of them on the wing. From the affinity between this and the 

 laft defcribed, this may not be a diftindt fpecies, but merely a variety in the white mark- 

 ings of the wings. The upper fide of this fly is reprefented at fig. 4 ; and the under parts, 

 with the wings clofed, as at reft, at fig. 5. 



