60 fAuguat, 



colour and markings. The imago appears in May in woods and hedges 

 flying in the sunshine. It occurs at Darenth and Swanscombe Woods 

 at Dulwich, and other pLaces round London ; at Epping and the Nev 

 Foi'ests, Devonshii'e, &c." In the Manual of British Butterflies anc 

 Moths, II, p. 26G, I give the time of appearance " May," and add; 

 " Widely distributed, and not scai'ce in the South ; flying in the 

 sunshine." 



Herrich-Schaffer, who adopts in his Schmetterlinge von Europe 

 the name Fischerana for this species, says of it (vol. iv, p. 225) : " Ir 

 Mecklenburg, Bohemia, also near Hatisbou in the valleys of the Label 

 and the Danube ; in May and June." Heinemann, in his Schmetterlinge 

 Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Wickler, p. 138, says : " More in the 

 North of Germany, in May and June, and again in August, among 

 sloe." On this I must remark that I much doubt its being double- 

 brooded. 



Hartmann, in his Kleinschmetterlinge der Umgegend Milnchens 

 p. 3G, gives the somewhat startling information : " larva from Septembei 

 to May in the swollen knots on the stems and branches of Juniperuh 

 commimis ; imago June and July," but surely some other species 

 must here be meant. Rossler, in his Lepidoptera von Wiesbaden 

 p. 247, says: " Throughout May on the margins of woods, in thickets; 

 and hedges; in the years 1857 — 59 almost common, since then, scarce 



Jourdheuille, in the Annales Ent. Soc. France, 1870, p. 127, says 

 of Lohesia -permixtana : " larva on AncJutsa officinalis,'' a food-plant 

 which is assigned by Rossler to the species he places immediately 

 after j)ermia-taiin, Lohesia artemisiana, the Eudemis artemisiana oi 

 Staudinger and Wocke's Catalogue. 



Brischke, in the Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 1876, p. 68, 

 says that he bred Lohesia permixtana from a larva "found August 21st. 

 1871, in the tips of the stem ("in den Stengelspitzen ") of Solidago 

 virgaurea. The larva was about 8 mm. long, pale brown-grey or 

 brown-red; head and following segment shining brown, the latter with 

 a pale central streak ; anal shield shining brown. When full fed it 

 entered the earth and spun a longish cocoon. The imago appeared on 

 the 11th April, 1872." T presume it had been kept in a warm room. 



I would remark here that Herr Brischke, of Danzig, only seems 

 to have found a single larva, and though his note was not published 

 till nearly foiu' years after the appearance of the Jirst permixtana 

 reported to have heen hred, he does not appear to have met with any 

 more of the larvae. The observation may be a good one, but it is 

 extremely desirable to have it confirmed by those who have oppor- 

 tunities of collecting in August amongst Solidago. Snellen, in Do 



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