{165} THE CHEQUERED SKIPPER. (_Steropes Paniscus._) (Plate XV. fig. 3.) _Sexes similar. Wings chequered with brownish black, and tawny orange above_; beneath, in addition to the above colours, there are on the hind wing several bright spots of pale buff _distinctly outlined_ with dark brown--having a much more ornamental effect than we generally meet with on the under surface in this family--the colouring on that side being usually faint and _blurred_ so as to give a washed-out or wrong-sided appearance. The _caterpillar_ is brown, striped and "collared" with yellow; head black. It feeds on the Plantain, also on Dog's-tail Grass (_Cynosurus cristatus_). The _butterfly_ appears in June, but is very local--being either found plentifully in a place or not at all. It has occurred at Barnwell, and Ashton Wold, Northants; Kettering; Sywell Wood, near Northampton; near Peterborough; Clapham Park Wood, and Luton, Bedfordshire; Bourne, Lincolnshire; Monks Wood, Hunts; White Wood; Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire; Stowmarket; Milton; Rockingham Forest; Dartmoor; Netley Abbey; Charlbury, near Enstone, Oxon. * * * * * THE LULWORTH SKIPPER. (_Pamphila Actæon._) (Plate XV. fig. 4, Male; 4 _a_, Female.) This plainly-coloured little butterfly, prized by collectors for its rarity, has, in the male sex, great general resemblance to that of the next species--the common _P. Linea_--but _Actæon_ may be distinguished by having the wings clouded over nearly the whole surface with {166} dull brown, having something of a greenish cast. The _female_ is, however, very different from that of _Linea_, having all the wings of uniform dingy brown, excepting a crescent-shaped row of tawny spots near the tip of the front wing, and a more or less distinct streak of the same colour near the centre. The male _Actæon_ is further distinguished from the female by the possession of a blackish streak near the centre of his front wing. _Beneath_, the wings are clouded obscurely with tawny yellow and a dingy brownish tint, the yellow tinge predominating in the male. The _caterpillar_ is unknown. The _butterfly_ appears in July and August, but is so extremely limited in its local range that it is only to be met with, so far as is known, in three spots--all on the same line of coast--viz. Lulworth Cove, Dorsetshire; the "Burning Cliff," about five miles nearer Weymouth along the coast; and at Sidmouth, Devonshire. At the present time I believe the "Burning Cliff" is the locality where the insect is found in the greatest plenty. It is to be looked for on the rough broken ground covered with weeds that slopes down to the shore on this coast. Mr. Humphreys states that in 1835 he saw it in great abundance at Shenstone, near Lichfield. * * * * * {167} THE SMALL SKIPPER. (_Pamphila Linea._) (Plate XV. fig. 5, Male; 5 _a_, Female.)