SMALL SKIPPER. 
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and other graminem. The chrysalis is of a yel- 
lowish-green colour. The fly appears in July, and 
is frequent in many parts of the country, both in 
England and Scotland. 
LARGE SKIPPER. 
Pamphila Sylvanus. 
PLATE II. Fig. 1. 
Hesperia Sylvanus, Fair. — Pap. Sylvanus, Lewin^ PI. 46, 
figs. 1 — 3; Z)o«.viU. PI. 254, fig.2(J. — The Large Skipper, 
Harris' Aurd, PL 42, f. h.~Pamphila Sylvanus, Steph. 
Expansion of the wings from fourteen to sixteen 
lines ; the colour fulvous, with the nervurcs and the 
hinder extremity of the wings brown, the latter 
colour deepening into a blackish line round the 
outer edge. The anterior wings have a few small 
quadrate fulvous spots in the dusky ground towards 
the tip, and the hinder pair very indistinct fulvous 
spots or clouds posteriorly, the colour sometimes 
difiused over a considerable portion of the disk. 
On the under side the upper wings are yellow, 
inclining to green at the tip, and dusky black at the 
base ; the superficial spots towards the apex some- 
times appearing, but very faintly marked. The 
Linder wings are greenish-yellow, with a curved 
series of pale quadrate spets, emarginate posteriorly, 
