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PEARL SKIPPER. 
PampMa Comma. 
PLATE IL Fig. 2. 
Pap. Comma, Xfon. ; ietajM, PI. 45, fig. 1,2; Don.\x. PI. 295 5?. 
— Hesperia Comma, Fo5r. — Tbe Pearl Skipper, Harris.—. 
Silver-spotted Slupper, J&rmyn . — Pamphila Comma, Steph. 
About the size of the preceding, sometimes rather 
less : the male fulvous above, more or less suffused 
with brown towards the hinder margin of the wings, 
the disk of the primary pair with a linear black 
mark, having silvery scales in the centre, and be- 
yond this, towards the apex, a series of quadrate 
whitish spots forming an irregular semicircle : the 
hinder wings with irregular fulvous spots posteriorly, 
and the disk more or less suffused with fulvous. 
Beneath, the anterior wings are greenish-grey, the 
centre pale yellow, the apex with a series of white 
spots, corresponding in their position to those on 
the surface; the hinder wings greenish-grey, with 
nine white quadrangular spots, three of them 
grouped towards the base, the others forming a 
curved transverse hand. The fringe of all the 
wings is pale, spotted with brown at the base on 
