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Pamphila otho, Sm. and Abb—The Otho Skipper. 
Expands 1.25 inches. Win^s brown with an olive tint in the pos¬ 
terior two-thirds. On fore wings are two double yellow spots placed 
as follows: One pair beyond the discal cell perpendicular to costa, 
the other below near the middle of the wing and oblique; spots re¬ 
peated on the under side. No spot on the hind wings. 
Pamphila peckius, Kirby—Peck’s Skipper. 
Plxpands about an inch. Dark brown above. Male —three ochre spots 
crossed by brown veins near the tip in the form of a triangle, the 
same color on the costal part from the base to the end of the discal 
cell. Below the last yellow space is a black stripe that extends from 
the base near the hind margin to the end of the discal cell. Hind 
wings with seven ochre spots, one near the middle and the rest in a 
sub-marginal row, the second and third from the costa the largest. 
Underside yellowish brown, the marks of the upper side repeated ex¬ 
cept the black of the fore wings, and the lower of the three terminal 
spots are much larger. The sub-marginal row of dots united into a 
band which joins in the middle, the central spot of which is much 
enlarged. Female —has on the fore wings only the terminal three spots, 
and on the hind wing the same as the male but less distinct. Under¬ 
side similar to the male but darker. 
Pamphila cernes, Bd. and Lee.—The Cernes Skipper. 
This is also called P. ahaton. Expands 1.10 inches. Dark brown 
above. An oblique black dash in the middle of the fore wings, the 
basal half of the wing ochre-yellow, the posterior part dusky, but the 
part in frent of the black dash clear and extending outward somewhat 
toward the apex on the costa. There are two other spurs of the yel¬ 
low extending towards the outer margin, one in the middle of the 
wing and the other at the hind margin. Hind wings unmarked. 
Antenme knob yellow on the inside; tip short. Underside, hind 
wings yellow sprinkled with gray-brown; fore wings, hinder part, 
gray-brown, fore part the yellow as above, the tip same as hind wings. 
Pamphila manataqua, Scud. 
Expands 1.25 inches. Wings above dark brown with an olive tint. 
Fore wings with a long, deep ochre spot in the middle of the wing be¬ 
low the costa, and an oblique row of light yellow interrupted spots 
