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PLATE LXVI.
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DINGY SKIPPER.
Hesperia tages, FABBICIUS. LEACH. JEEMYN.
Papilio tages, LINN.EUS. LEWIN. HAWOETH.
HABBIS.
Thymele tages, FABBICIUS. STEPHENS. DUNCAN.
WOOD.
Thanaos tages, BOISDUVAL.
Nisoniades tages, HUBNEE. WESTWOOD.
I HAVE taken this Skipper in plenty near Charmouth and
Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, and Devonshire. It is met with at
Barnwell and Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of Pole-
brook, Northamptonshire; and is very abundant in Raydon
Wood, and Wintlesham Wood near Hadleigh, Essex; near Great
Bedwyn and Sarum, Wiltshire; and, in fact, in most parts of
England. In Ireland it is plentiful at Ardrahan, near Galway,
as A. G. More, Esq. tells me. It is taken also in Scotland in
different parts.
It frequents for the most part wooded districts, both the
woods themselves, and any places not very distant from them;
open flowery pasture meadows, where, a "tenant for life," its
sombre hue contrasts well with the vellow of the 2'olden butter-
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cup on which it alights.
This plain-coloured insect occurs at different periods, in May,
June, and July.
The caterpillar feeds on the bird's-foot lotus, (Lotus cornicu-
latus,) and the field eryngo.
The wings of this species expand to the width of about an
inch and a quarter. The fore Avings are blackish brown, with
three cross-waved bands of grey, the middle one the widest,