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Larva. I cannot say that I have yet bred the insect, 
but I subsequently adduce the evidence of others on the 
subject. 
This insect is found in dry-places,* and is widely dis- 
tributed, especially on the sea-coast. 
Time of appearance of imago, from second week in 
May to second week in June, always about one month 
earlier than the last species. 
I have nearly always found this insect in company with 
4. Filipendule. 
The knowledge of the existence of these two forms of 
Trifolii, as forms, is no novelty either to our English or 
Continental authors, and varieties of them, not the types, 
were described as species by the late Mr. Stephens ; the 
confusion in the synonymy almost baffles elucidation, and 
is by no means the least intricate problem in the genus. 
Fabricius in his ‘Entomologia Systematica (1793) gives 
only one 5-spotted species, viz. :— 
Lott. 
Sphine Loti, W. V. 
Sphine Lonicere, Esper, 
And he observes concerning it— 
‘© Habitat in Loto corniculato, nimis affinis Z. Filipen- 
dule.” As Fabricius only knew one 5-spotted species, the 
expression nimis afimis cannot be read in the same way as 
if he had our present knowledge; the most aberrant five- 
spot, to us, would probably have been ninis affinis to 
Fabricius. So, in fact, it is impossible to say which insect 
the Loti, Fab. was; the probability is m favour of the 
Lonicere of the present day. 
Haworth, following Fabricius, gives only Zygena Loti, 
also adding “habitat in Loto corniculato ;” evidently 
supposing his Loti to be the Loti of Fabricius; but the 
following remark occurs in a note to Humphreys and 
Westwood’s “ British Moths, and their transformations.” 
* Tdo not say that the early Trifolii is exclusively confined to dry 
places; as Filipendule is often found in marshes, this species ought also, 
but I have never found it in marshes.—T. H. B. 
