THE DINGY SKIPPER. 
Thymele Tages. 
PLATE I. Fig. 2. 
Pap. Tages, linn . ; Lexvin, PI. 54, figs. 3 and 4 Hesperia 
Tagefi, Leach, Jermyn . — The Dingy Skipper, Harris' Aurel. 
Pi. 34 Thymele Tagee, Sieph, 
Tms species is generally a good deal larger than 
the preceding ; the colour of the surface rather dark 
bromi faintly clouded with ash-grey, with a few 
scattered white points, and a continuous series along 
the margin of aU the nings. The fringe is grejnsh- 
broivn, indistinctly denticulated ; the under side 
tami3'-grey, with ill-defined -white spots, especially 
towards the hinder side of the inferior ndngs. The 
antennsB are black, ringed with grey. 
The caterpillar is bright green, -with a yellow 
stripe dotted nith black along the back, and others 
of a similar description on the sides; the head 
broAvn. It is said to feed on the Eryngium cam- 
pestre and birds’-foot trefoil (Lotus comiculatusj, 
the latter being probably its most ordinary food, as 
the insect is frequently found in districts where the 
