Home › The Common Skippers › The Grizzled Skipper

The Grizzled Skipper

Hesperia centaurea (Hes-pe'ri-a cen-tau're-æ) PLATE XLV, FIG. 8 Wings blackish brown conspicuously checkered with white, and with the fringe of the wings white interrupted at the ends of the veins with the ground color of the wings. This species differs from the preceding in the smaller amount of white markings; the white spots in the band just beyond the middle of the wing are but little if any broader than high. Expanse of wings one and one-fourth inches.

This pretty species has been taken in widely separated localities: New York, West Virginia, Colorado, Labrador, Norway, and Lapland.

Nothing is known regarding its early stages.

I, who take root and firmly cling, Thought fixedness the only thing; Why Nature made the butterflies (Those dreams of wings that float and hover At noon the slumberous poppies over), Was something hidden from mine eyes, Till once, upon a rock's brown bosom, Bright as a thorny cactus-blossom, I saw a butterfly at rest; Then first of both I felt the beauty; The airy whim, the grim-set duty Each from the other took its best.

LOWELL.

Abbot, 88, 197, 235.

Abdomen, 16.

INDEX Acadian Hair-streak, The, 224. acadica, Thecla, 224.

Achalarus lycidas, 295.

Agapetida, 180.