THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 101.] MARCH/'MDCCCLXXII. [Price 6d. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



THE STRIPED TIGER MOTH (CAILIMORPHA HEEA). 



Callimorpha Hera. — A correspondent enquires "why this 

 species has not been introduced into the British List, and 

 why the Channel Island insects have not been always 

 admitted, since Sir William Hooker, Professor Babington, and 

 other botanists, have always admitted the plants ?" He adds, 

 "If the plants are British, so must be the insects which 

 feed on them." In reply, I will take the last point first. I 

 think it decidedly unwise to admit the Channel Island 

 plants, seeing those islands are politically only, and neither 

 naturally nor geographically, a part of Great Britain. On the 

 other point, it may be said of D'Orville's capture, to which 

 my correspondent does not allude, but which, doubtless, 

 induces the enquiry, that Mr. D'Orville lives near a large 

 nursery, and that a hybernating larva of Hera may easily have 

 been introduced from the Continent with imported plants. 

 The Sussex captures, published in the ' Zoologist' and 

 * Entomologist,' are not so easily accounted for, and are 

 more difficult to explain ; but, perhaps, we may apply the 

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