1399.] 137 



Geometrina. 



I captured examples of J^ic^oni'a and Onophos at Jerusalem, Si/nopsia sociaria 

 fliw to liglit in the evening, 12/8 ; at Jaffa in April I captured Sterrha sacraria. 



Pyealidina. 



Pyral la farina! is, the Meal Moth, 25/8. — As there are one or two steam flour 

 mills at Jerusalem, the abundance of this moth is not to be wondered at. It is 

 frequently started in the kitchens and rock hewn caves. This moth is omnipresent 

 in the cooler portions of the globe. 



Cledeobia uxorialis, 1915— 216. — This little ochreous moth is a familiar object 

 at Jerusalem. It flies with the butterflies over the thistle tops in the morning 

 sunshine. 



I found examples of Aglo.t.ia, Crambus and Pempelia among the rank weeds of 

 the olive yards at Jerusalem. 



Southampton : 1899. 



SOME EXACT OBSERVATIONS ON THE EMERGENCE OP 

 ENDROMIS VERSICOLOR, L. 



BY EUSTACE E. BANKES, M.A., F.E.S. 



It is well kuown to those who have reared Endromis versicolor 

 that the pupa, as mentioned by Buckler in the " Larvae of British 

 Butterflies and Moths," vol. iii, p. 65, progresses either partially or 

 entirely out of its cocoon some few days before the emergence of the 

 moth. But when drawing Dr. T. A. Chapman's attention to the fact 

 a few years ago, 1 found myself obliged to confess that although I 

 had reared one or two broods, 1 could not say for certain what length 

 of time elapsed between these events. The following exact observa- 

 tions were therefore undertaken, with a view to settling the point, on 

 a brood that emerged in the spring of 189i : the pupae had resulted 

 from ova laid in confinement by moths whose ancestors had come from 

 Forres, Morayshire, N.B. A few of the pupae belonging to this brood 

 lay over until 1895, but no observations were made upon them. 



The cages containing the pupae were kept throughout in a cool 

 game-larder, looking north and east, and with the window -spaces 

 filled with perforated zinc instead of glass : they were examined by 

 myself several times each day, so that the observations may be relied 

 upon as being as exact and accurate as one can well make them 

 without actually keeping a watch all day long. 



