THE LEPIDOPTERIST'S CALENDAR 



8 9 



IMAGOS] JUNE 



Many species may be found at rest on tree trunks, and palings and fences 

 near. S. fagi is a prize well worth the search. It rests almost as if set out on 

 the tree, and from the light brown of its ample, serrated wings forming a con- 

 trast to the dark trunk on which it rests, it can sometimes be discovered a 

 good distance off. It is useless looking for it (or indeed for any other species 

 which rest on trunks) among very young trees. The difficulty generally is in 

 first finding a species, as the eye does not exactly know what it is looking for, 

 and mistakes many of the stains and marks on trees and palings for insects ; 

 but having once seen the desiderated species, the eye, thus educated, will ever 

 afterwards quickly detect it. The number of markings on trees and wooden 

 fences which resemble moths is surprising ; but when we know the species 

 we are looking for, and the exact appearance they present when spread out 

 flat, as they generally are, little difficulty is felt in rapidly making a thorough 

 examination of a large number of trees. After having looked at a tree or 

 fence, and found nothing, it is desirable to give it a parting tap with a stick ; 

 like the magic wand of a harlequin it will sometimes bring forth something 

 we little expected. 



P. Machaon ...fens, and marshes 

 P. cratcegi, e. ...near woods, &c. 



brassicse gardens, &c. 



rapse gardens, &c. 



napi gardens, &c. 



A. cardamines... fields, &c. 



C. Edusa lucerne, and clover 



fields, and railway banks ; fond 

 of fl. 



A. Paphia, e. ...woods 

 Aglaia, e. ...hillsides, coast sand- 

 hills, &c. 



Niobe, <J b. ... hillsides, in company 

 with Aglaia, or Adippe. Has 

 occurred in Kent, the New 

 Forest, and near Windermere 

 Adippe, e. ...woods 

 Euphrosyne, b. woods, &c. 



Selene woods, &c. 



M.Artemis wet meadows 



Cinxia 



Athalia woods, and heaths 



V. c. -album, e. gardens, hopgrounds, 

 &c. 



urticse, e gardens, fields, &c. 



L. sibylla, e. .. woods, parks, forests 



E. epiphron in marshy hollows, 



on mountain sides 



S. lanira, e fields, &c. 



hyperanthus woods, &c. 



C. Davus Northern moors 



Pamphilus ...fields, &c. 



T. w-album, e. flies over trees, and 

 is attracted by fl. of bramble, 

 lime trees, grass, &c. 



, r pruni woods, at fl. of 



privet, &c. 



P. Phloeas fields, lanes, coast 



sand-hills, &c. ; at fl. ; rests on 

 sorrel, &c., at night 

 L. Artaxerxes (var.) at St. Arthur's 

 seat, &c. 



agestis hilly fields, &c. 



Alexis fields,, hills, &c. ; 



rests on grass stalks, &c., in 

 dull weather, and at night 

 Alsus hilly fields, rail- 

 way banks, coast sand-hills, &c. 



Arion dry, hilly fields, 



where thyme abounds, and de- 

 serted stone quarries, in hilly 

 districts ; rests on grass stems, 

 &c. , in dull weather, and at night 

 N. Lucina, b. ...woods, and banks 

 near, where primrose abounds 



H. sylvanus woods, hills, &c. 



Paniscus, e. ... woods 

 S. ocellatus ... 



populi on trees, palings, 



tilise &c., come to 1. 



ligustri 



D. euphorbise ...has occurred on the 

 coast, and at Killing, Ireland, 

 among Euphorbia 



