122 BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR'S 



' H. Tabes. 



Antenna knob tapering botli ways, curved ; joints more than 



thirty. 

 In other resjjects like the preceding. 



• * * II. LiNEA. 



Antenna thickening from beyond the middle into a long 

 obtuse straight knob ; joints less than thirty. 



Egg unknown. 



Caterpillar wsHixi., or pube.scent, fusiform (a.) 



Chrysalis inclosed in a cocoon, head-case rounded notched. 



Reaum, i. pi. xi. fig. 6 — 12. 



Hilbner Schmet. pi. xcv. E. 



HESPERIA COMMA, PALE SPOTTED SKIPPER. 

 Leum,pl. 46, Jig. 1,2,3. 



Butterflij. Wings tawny, darker towards the tips, with a 

 brown posterior margin and whitish long fringe, which 

 underneath is tawny ; primary with a discoidal oblique black 

 blotch, an imdulated band on both sides of paler square 

 spots ; underneath paler, at the internal part of the base, 

 brown, greenish at the tips ; secondary on both sides with 

 six quadrangular spots, emarginate posteriorly, one placed 

 towards the base, the other five an-anged in a curved band 

 nearer the posterior margin, which forms a crescent in the 

 disk of the wing; underneath paler with a greenish hue. 

 The female is larger without the black blotch, paler under- 

 neath, <vith .spots less distinct. 



N. B.— This is i)robably the H. Si/lvanits of Mr. Ilaworth, 

 but it appears to be the H. Comma of Linnieus, and many 

 other authors. 



