VADE MECl'M. 123 



( 'aterpillur. Dirty green, witli a dorsal and lateral row of 

 black dots mixed with red. The head is black, with a white 

 collar. 



Chrysalis. Elongated and cylindrical. 



HESPERIA SYLVANUS, LARGE SKIPPER. 



/jetuiii, pi. 45, fig, 1, 2. 



Butterfly. Wings brown, with tawny spots and blotches ; 

 above the posterior margin l)lackish. Fringe pale. Primary 

 on both sides with an undulated band of square pale spots 

 emarginate posteriorly, the five next the tip whiter than the 

 rest ; underneath base interiorly brown, the rest of tlie wings 

 tawny, spots paler than those above. Secondary i)rojecting 

 near the anal angle into a tooth, with five quadrangular 

 po.steriorly emarginate pale spots, one towards the base, and 

 the other four forming an angular abbreviated band below 

 the centre of the wing, underneath paler and greeni.sh, with 

 nine quadrangular posteriorly emarginate white spots, \\l, 

 three at the base arranged in a triangle, and six discoidal, 

 forming an acute-angled open figure. 



Caterpillar. 



Chrysalis. 



Observation. Tliis appears to be the H. Comma of Mr. 

 Haworth, but it agrees best with the description of H. 

 Syluanus of Fabricius. When it alights, which it does very 

 often, for it is never long on the wing, it always turns half- 

 way round, so that if it settles with its head from you, it 

 tarns it towards you, 



HESPERIA PANISCUS, CHEQUERED SKIPPER. 



Donovan, v. V, pi. 254. 



Butterfly. AU the wings above, black, spotted virith 

 tawny. Primary with a central blotch, tlien as it were a 



