THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXVIIL] MAY, 1895. [No. 384. 



EMMELESIA TMNIATA. 

 By J. B. HoDGKiNsoN, F.E.S. 



Larva of Emmelesia tccniata. 



This very variable species, of which really good specimens 

 are rarely to be obtained, generally occurs in damp woods, and 

 when disturbed darts into dark places. It is very uncertain in 

 its time of appearance. Once or twice I have captured some 

 scores in a day. It seems especially numerous, or at least easy 

 to take, after a thunder-storm, when it has been driven down 

 among the laurel-trees for shelter. 



First taken in 1825, by the late Mr. J. C. Dale, at Castle 

 Eden Dene, Durham, it has since been met with at Dovedale in 

 Derbyshire ; at Flimby, near Mary port, Cumberland ; and by 

 the late Mr. Murton at Silverdale in Lancashire. I have 

 myself taken it on the top of Whitbarrow, Witherslack, and on 

 the Lancashire side of Windermere Lake ; it is also recorded 

 from Ireland. 



The moth appears from the middle of June to the end of July. 

 The larva hatches about six weeks after the egg is deposited, 

 goes into hybernation when about a quarter of an inch long, and 

 commences to feed again in April on the fruit of any of the 

 mosses, but perhaps more frequently on a species of Ih-ijum 



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