350 
HESPERIDM, 
concavity in the centre of the hind margin. In colour the wings 
are generally fulvous ; the fore wings in the male have a black 
line immediately below the discoidal cell ; this is absent in the 
females, and the ground colour of the wings is paler than in the 
other sex. Five out of the seven European species occur in 
Britain. 
1. — H. Thaumas, Hufn. Berl. M. ii. p. 62 (1766) ; Eott. Nat. vi. 
4; Esp. 36, 2, 3; Bkh. i. 181. 
Linea, S. V. p. 160 ; Fab. Mant. 84 (1787) ; Hub. 485-7 ; 
0. i. 2, 228; Godt. i. 12, 3 ; Frr. 631, 1. 
Expands from 1*08 to 1’20 in. Both sexes fulvous, but the 
male is generally deeper than the female ; has a broad black streak 
in the centre of the fore wings, curving downwards towards the 
inner margin. Hind margins of all the wings blackish in the 
male, very narrowly so in the female ; the neuration is blackish. 
Under side : Fore wings fulvous, yellowish grey towards the apex. 
Hind wings greenish, with the inner margin fulvous. Clubs of 
antennse reddish brown beneath. 
Times of Appearance. — June to the end of August. 
Habitat. — Borders of woods, roadsides, dry fields, and pas- 
tures, both in the plains and at some elevation in the mountains ; 
throughout Central and Southern Europe, Scandinavia, and the 
British Isles, North Africa, Asia Minor, Syria, Armenia, and 
Persia ; also North America. 
Larva. — Green, with yellowish white lateral lines. Head and 
legs green. Feeds on various grasses, introducing itself between 
the leaves and the stems. It is full-grown early in June. 
Pupa. — Yellowish green, the wing-cases darker ; the tube 
containing the tongue is brownish. 
N.B. — The numbers to the figures of this species and that of 
C. Palmmon on PI. LXXX. are accidentally transposed. The central 
figure represents the larva and pupa of H. Lima (= Thaumas) ; 
that at the bottom right corner C. Lalwmon. 
