THE LEPIDOPTERIST'S CALENDAR 



LARV^I] 



C. villica l.from Sept., chick- 

 weed, furze, and other plants. 

 The hairy bombyces prefer feed- 

 ing in the morning sunshine 



A. fuliginosa, b. from Sept., plantain, 



dock, grasses, &c. 



L. chrysorrhsea ...from Sept., sloe, 

 hawthorn, &c. "Painfully un- 

 desirable to handle" 



auriflua from Sept., sloe, 



hawthorn, oak, sallow, &c. 



salicis from Aug., poplar, 



willow, oak, &c. Often sun 

 themselves on tree trunks when 

 not feeding 



dispar Myrica gale, willow, 



sloe, hawthorn, and various 

 fruit trees. Formerly found at 

 large; now bred artificially 



monacha oak, beech, birch, 



fir, apple, c. ; hides in the 

 crevices of the bark 



O. fascelina from September, on 



hedges, dwarf sallows, furze 

 fl., broom, heath, and various 

 trees and plants 



fr gonostigma ...from Sept., oak, nut, 

 willow, sallow, bramble, sloe, 

 hawthorn, beech, &c. If fed on 

 willow there is a tendency to 

 become double-brooded. Hiber- 

 nate in a loose web 



T. cratsegi hawthorn, sloe, sal- 

 low, birch, oak. May be found 

 on dense and closely-cropped 

 hawthorn hedgesborderingroads 



P. populi oak, poplar, lime, 



ash, hawthorn. In repose it lies 

 closely pressed on a branch or 

 twig 



E. lanestris hawthorn, sloe, c., 



in hedges ; generally a large 

 number in a web ; s. remains in 

 pupa several years 



B. neustria sloe, hawthorn, and 



fruit trees ; generally in a batch 

 in a web 



rubi from Sept., bramble, 



heath, &c. ; often found wander- 

 ing about in the sunshine 



MAY 



B. roboris from Sept., haw- 



thorn, dogwood, bramble, sal- 

 low, broom, heath, &c. 

 quercus(callunce) from Sept., bil- 

 berry, &c. ; dogwood preferred 



trifolii from Sept., trefoil, 



clover, broom, grass, furze, rasp- 

 berry, &c. ; attached to the coast 



O. potatoria from Sept., coarse 



grasses 



L. quercifolia ...from Sept., bramble, 

 sloe, sallow, willow, plum, &c. 

 Rests along a twig or branch, 

 which it greatly resembles 



O. sambucata ...from Sept., ivy, 

 elder, holly, bramble, and other 

 trees and plants 



E. vespertaria ...nut 



,, apiciaria nut, poplar, willow, 



sallow, alder 



A. prunaria, b from Oct., broom, 



sloe, beech, bramble, sallow, 



hawthorn, plum, &c. 

 M. margaritata ...from Sept., oak, 



beech, birch, hornbeam, &c. 

 P. syringaiia from Sept., lilac, 



privet, elder, honeysuckle. May 



be found at night, hanging from 



its food 



C. elinguaria hawthorn, sloe, oak, 



honeysuckle, &c. , also, heath, 



bilberry, &c. 



H. pennaria oak, hawthorn 



P. pilosaria oak, elm 



N. zonaria Ammophila arundi- 



nacea, and other sand-hill plants 



hispidaria oak 



C. glabrana lichens, on fir 



,, lichenaria from Sept., lichens, 



on oak, park palings, &c. ; rests 



among the lichens, which it 



greatly resembles 



B. repandata bramble, sloe, birch, 



plum, spindle 

 perfumaria ..ivy, lilac, clematis, 



&c. 

 abietaria from Sept., larch, 



spruce, and Scotch fir ; has been 



found on whortleberry; will also 



eat birch, and oak 



