42 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



headland at Barry, in Glamorgan. Some of the early captured 

 females deposited eggs ; caterpillars resulting therefrom were 

 fed on vine, and at least one moth was reared in September. 



A good many specimens visited the south of England, 

 more particularly South Devon, in June, 1906, but the species 

 was reported as occurring in large numbers on rhododendron 

 blossom near Cork in Ireland from June 9 to 13 or 14. In 

 August and September the moth was reported from Kent, 

 Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, and South Wales ; 

 such specimens probably being the offspring of the early 

 immigrants. During the past forty years the barren seasons 

 for the Striped Hawk appear to have been only ten. The 

 dates of its occurrence have been somewhat erratic. One was 

 captured in 1887 in the month of February, one on March 27 

 in 1903, but the moth has been observed in each month from 

 May to September inclusive, although M. a^^un e, and August 

 would seem to have been the more favoured . The caterpillar 

 has not been seen often in England. Mr, Farn recorded six or 

 seven from Ryde in July, 1870 ; they were feeding on vine and 

 centaury in a garden. One spun up in the leaves at the bottom 

 of the box on July 27, but the web was so fragile that the 

 caterpillar fell out, and changed to the chrysalis state on the 

 30th. The moth emerged on August 26. In the same year 

 several caterpillars occurred in Devon and Cornwall, and one 

 of these was found on July 11 in a mangold-wurtzel field in 

 the Exeter district. It was afterwards reared on fuchsia, and 

 produced a moth on August 18. Nine others were reported 

 from a nursery garden at Plymouth ; they were fed up on dock — 

 the plant upon which they had been found — and the moth was 

 reared later in the year. In 1902 Mr. Jager received a cater- 

 pillar from Starcross about July 20, and this attained the moth 

 state on September 27. A caterpillar, believed to be of this 

 species, was found in a sunny garden at Lewes in Sussex, 

 July 20, 1906. 



