62 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



selves to the muslin hoods over their food in the flowev-pots m 

 'svhich they were kept. 



The parent butterfly when depositing her eggs appears to 

 avoid the extra large plants and selects those of a medium or 

 smaller size, and I did not find any larvEe upon large plants of 

 the field-thistle {C. arvensis), but only on those stunted specimens 

 growing almost level with the ground, and without erect stems 

 for the larvffi to pupate on had they wished to do so. Some 

 years ago in this parish I found several larvpe feeding upon flea- 

 bane {I. dysenterica), and at Malta and elsewhere on the Medi- 

 terranean coast have taken them on a dwarfed variety of the 

 common mallow (il/. sylvestris). 



The first butterfly emerged on July 20th, and the last on 

 August 13th, and from the eighty larvte reared seventy-eight 

 butter-flies were bred. Only two pupae produced parasites : from 

 one a number of small flies, somewhat similar in size and 

 appearance to Apanteles ghmerdtus (although I could not see any 

 of the usual little masses of golden cocoons attached to the sides 

 of the breeding-cage) ; and from the other two or three dark 

 brown flies, a trifle smaller than our common house-fly — so that 

 these larvffi were remarkably free from the attacks of ichneu- 

 mons, etc. 



Of the butterflies bred about half were allowed their libertj^ 

 and the rest — a very fine series — were set. These do not 

 disfday any great range of variety, but there are several nice 

 daik examples, with the black apes of fore wings much enlarged 

 and the white spots very small, and with bars and spots of hind 

 wings broader and larger than in typical specimens ; they are 

 also more or less suffused with dusky atoms. In addition to 

 these there are two interesting specimens having the outline of 

 their wings much rounded, particularly those of the left side, 

 which are also slightly reduced in size ; one of these is rather 

 dark, the other normal. 



As the larvae were so plentiful in June and July I fully 

 expected to see a large number of the perfect insects in the late 

 summer, but with the exception of a single fresh one seen on 

 August 11th — and which might have been one of those released 

 — I did not notice any, which was no doubt owing to the exces- 

 sive amount of rain, and cold, dull, boisterous weather we had 

 throughout the greater part of August and September. 



Instow, North Devon ; 

 December 18th, 1918. 



LEPIDOPTERA FROM SOUTH NORWAY. 

 By J. C. Hawkshaw. 



The insects named in the following list arranged in the order 

 of Staudinger and Rebel's catalogue, 1901, were taken, with a 



