CHEQUERED SKIPPER. 
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those on the anterior wings consisting of a large 
patch before the middle, then an irregular curved 
band intersected by the black nervures, and lastly, 
a faint row of tawny dots parallel with the hinder 
margin. On each of the secondary wings are three 
discoidal spots, one of them larger than the others, 
and a posterior band of small dots. The fringe of 
all the wings is tawny at the tip. The under side 
is yellow, inclining to grey, the upper wings with 
several marks, and the extremity of the nervures 
black ; the imder pair with seven rounded yellowish- 
white spots, and a posterior macular band of the 
same colour. Antennae pale beneath, the tip of 
the club reddish yellow. 
The caterpillar, which feeds on the Greater Plan- 
tain, is described as being dark-brown on the back, 
with the sides lighter, and ornamented with two 
longitudinal yellow stripes ; the head black, and 
the segment behind it ivith an orange-coloured 
band. 
This prettily marked insect is regarded as very 
local, but its localities are pretty widely scattered, 
and many of them afford it in tolerable plenty. It 
frequents meadows and damp woods, usually ap- 
pearing in the end of May and June. It is found 
in Devonshire, near Bedford, in Northamptonshire, 
Oxford, &c. 
