The above-named butterfly (Plate VII, fig. 13) is a lively-looking little insect, its wings being of a bright tawny orange colour, bordered with black, beyond which is a light fringe. The male, which is the sex figured, is distinguished from the female by an oblique black streak across the middle of the front wings. The under side is orange, with a decidedly greenish tinge. The butterfly is out in July, and is very abundant and widely distributed. It lays its eggs on various grasses, particularly the meadow soft-grass (_Holcus lanatus_). The caterpillar hybernates through the winter, and is full fed in the following June, when it changes to a green chrysalis after spinning a light silken cocoon among the blades of grass. The colour of the caterpillar is green, with six longitudinal white stripes--two on the back, and two on each side. _The New Small Skipper_ (_Hesperia Lineola_) A few years since (1888) a butterfly was taken in one of our south-eastern counties that closely resembled the well-known _Thaumas_ (or _Linea_), but which turned out to be a species not previously known in Britain. When, however, the distinguishing features of the new butterfly were made known, several entomologists discovered that they had already secured the new prize, but that, being ignorant of its characteristics, they had placed it in their series over the label _Thaumas_. Since the above date, this new insect (Plate VII, fig. 18), which is named _Lineola_, has been taken in considerable numbers at Leigh, Harwich, Southend, and near Shoeburyness in Suffolk, as well as in the Fens of Huntingdonshire; and it is highly probable that it may turn up in various other localities where it has not yet been observed. It appears on the wing about the first week of July, a little later than _Thaumas_, but the two kindred species are often found flying together. The chief points by which we distinguish _Lineola_ from the last species are these: The general appearance of the wings is a bit dingier than in _Thaumas_; the inner portion of the hind wings is of a bright tawny colour in _Thaumas_ but not in _Lineola_; the tips of the antennae are yellow beneath in _Thaumas_, but black in _Lineola_; and the black streak across the fore wings of the latter species is short and generally broken. The eggs of _Lineola_ are laid at the end of July or beginning of August on various grasses, chiefly the various species of _Triticum_, but do not hatch till the following April. The larva is full fed about the end of June or beginning of July, and then changes to a long yellowish-green chrysalis, from which the perfect insect emerges in two or three weeks. _The Lulworth Skipper_ (_Hesperia Actaeon_)