POLLITiATION OF EARLY SPRING FLOWERS 



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Name of Species. 



Seleiiia bilunaria Esp. 



(S. ilhinaria Hbn.) 



Pacbys strataria Huf n 



(A. prodromaria S. & D.) 

 Hibernia leucophaiaria (S. & D.)-. 

 Anisopteryx jescularia (S. & D.)-- 



Anticlea badiata H libn 



Xaiithorboe fluctiiata L 



Triphosa dubitata L 



Flight 

 uutnths. 



Length of 

 proboscis. 



Polyploca flavicornis L 



Barathra brassica? L 



Taeniocampa instabilis Esp. 



Taeiiiocampa gothica L 



Panolis flammea Hiibn. ... 

 Orrhodia spadicea Hw. ... 



Scopelosoma satellitia L. 

 Calocampa exoleta L. ... 



Calocampa vetusta Hiibn 



Hypena rostralis L 



Gonodontis bidentata CI 



Rumia luteolata L 



Hemerophila abruptaria Thnb. 

 Tephrosia bistortata Gr , 



Asthena candidata S. & D. 

 Cabera exanthemata Sc. .. 



Noctua plecta L 



Phlogophora meticulosa L. 



Cucullia verbasci L 



Cucullia scrophularia) Cap. 



4-5 



3-4 



4-5 

 3-4 

 3-4 



5-6 



8-5 

 (hibernates) 



3-4 

 6-7 

 2-4 

 3-4 

 3-5 

 9-4 



5-7 

 5-8 



5-6 

 5-6 



4-5 



4 mm. 



(none) 



1 mm. 

 (none) 

 6 mm. 



5 mm. 

 7*5 mm. 



4"5 mm. 

 10 mm. 

 5'5 mm. 

 5 mm. 

 6'5 mm. 

 7"5 ram. 



3'5 mm. 

 6 mm. 

 (about) 

 5'5 mm. 

 11 mm. 

 (about) 

 20 mm. 

 (about) 

 20 mm. 

 (about) 



Flowers 

 visited. 



Ivy, Heather 

 Ragwort, and 

 Sallow. 

 Sallow. 



Sallow. 

 Sallow. 



Ivy and 

 Sallow. 

 Ivy. 

 Ivy. 



Ivy. 



Sallow and 

 Barberry. 



Pinky. 



Some of the insects named come abroad again later in the year. 



only species of moth which has ever been observed to visit any 

 Primrose. 



Mr. Christy, in his paper above mentioned, made such use as he 

 thought necessary of these results. Having done that, he suggested 

 that, as those results were entirely novel in their way and were likely 

 to be of interest to other botanists studying the pollination of our 

 early spring-flowering plants other than the Primrose^ it would be 

 well if they Avere published. The present paper is the outcome. 

 It may, perhaps, induce other entomologists to undertake further 

 work on the same lines. 



