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GRIZZLED SKIPPER. 
Thymele Alveolus. 
PLATE I. Fig. 1. 
Pap. Alveolus, Hvbner. — ^Pap. Malva;, Lemn, PI. 46, figs. 8, 9. 
— Hesperia Malvse, Jermyn. 2d Editicm, 154. — The Grizzled 
Butterfly, Wilkes. — The Grizzle Butterfly, Harris' Aurel, 
PI. 32. — Thymele Alveolus, Fabr. Stepk 
Thymele is knotvn by having antenna) slightly 
elongate, the joints upwards of thirty in number, 
with the club curved, but not terminating in a 
hook. The palpi are rather longer than the head, 
_•» and thickly clothed with hair ; the anterior wings 
rather short, and rounded on the hinder edge. 
The Grizzled Skipper is a small species, seldom 
much exceeding an inch in the expansion of the 
wings. The ground colour of the surface is browmish- 
black, the anterior wings from before the middle to 
the apex marked with straw-coloured spots, most of 
them of a quadrangular shape ; the fringe the same 
colour as the spots, tind barred with browmish-black. 
The tmder wings have some straw'-coloured spots 
towards the middle anteriorly, and an irregular 
macular band not far from the hinder margin ; the 
