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CHEQUERED SKIPPER. 
PampUila Pamsous. 
PLATE I. Fig. 3. 
Hesperia Paniscus, Pahr. — ^Pap. Paniscus, Don. viii. PI. 254, 
fig. 1. — Pap. Brontes, Hvhner . — Chequered Skipper, //o- 
worih, Jermyn . — ^Pamphila Paniscus, Sieph. 
In Pamphila the palpi are short and compressed, 
covered with scales and hairs ; the antennas rather 
short, the joints not amounting to thirty ; the club 
straight, abrupt, and spindle-shaped, without a hook 
at the extremity in P. Panisem and Linea, but 
having an acute hook in P. Sylvamts and Comma. 
The anterior wings are somewhat longer than in the 
preceding genus, and the hinder pair have a slight 
projection at the anal angle, like a rudimentary 
tail. The head and thorax are equally robust as in 
Thymele, or rather more so ; and the males of some 
of the species are distinguished by having an oblique 
abbreviated black line on the disk of the anterior 
wings. 
The Chequered Skipper expands about an inch 
and two or three lines. The surface is brownish- 
black, marked with numerous bright fulvous spots. 
