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Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1896 . ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 9^. But a more hurtful, because more numerous, group of grass feeders are to be foundamong the HESPERIDiB. They belong to the genus Pamphila in the Hesperidae, and are commonly calledSkippers (Fg. 86). The most commonof the Quebec species are :—Pamphila Hoh-omok^ Harris; P. Manitoba^ Scudder; , Kirby ; P. Mystic, Scudder, andP. Gernes, Edwards. The three last maybe seen in June and July scudding aboutthe meidows in droves. Fig. 86. Mr. W. Saunders, of London, Ontario, succeeded in rais
Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1896 . ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 9^. But a more hurtful, because more numerous, group of grass feeders are to be foundamong the HESPERIDiB. They belong to the genus Pamphila in the Hesperidae, and are commonly calledSkippers (Fg. 86). The most commonof the Quebec species are :—Pamphila Hoh-omok^ Harris; P. Manitoba^ Scudder; , Kirby ; P. Mystic, Scudder, andP. Gernes, Edwards. The three last maybe seen in June and July scudding aboutthe meidows in droves. Fig. 86. Mr. W. Saunders, of London, Ontario, succeeded in raising P. Mystic from the eggto the pupa, and has described the changes of the larva in the Canadian Entomologist^Vol. I., p. 65. The larva was full-grown in August. It was an inch long, onisciform,dovny, with a dull reddish-brown head and a dull brownish-green body. It had manydots of a darker hue and a dark dorsal line. The second segment was whitish with adark line across the upper surface. Mr. Fletcher, of Ottawa, raised P. Cernes from the egg to the pupa. The eggs werelaid on grass on the 10th o
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