THE LEPIDOPTERIST'S CALENDAR 



in 



LARVJE] JULY 



Z. trifolii, h trefoil, vetch A. 



,, lonicera, h. ...clover, grasses 



filipendulae h. Lotus corniculatus, 



&c. 

 L. molybdeola, h. lichens 



D. pulchella field forget-me-not 



L. monacha, b. oak, beech, apple, 



birch, fir, &c. ; hides in the ,, 



crevices of the bark 

 O. antiqua various trees, and ,, 



plants 



D. coryli beech, nut, birch, 



alder, oak, willow 



E. lanestris hawthorn, sloe, &c. ; 



in large nests of silk C. 



B. neustria sloe, hawthorn, fruit- 

 trees, &c. ; gregarious, in a web, C. 

 until nearly full-fed 



castrensis, b. . . . Artemisia mari- 

 tima, and Daucus maritimus. 

 Feed in the sunshine. Will A. 

 also eat knotgrass, chrysanthe- 

 mum, wild cherry, and various N, 

 trees, if sprinkled with salt water F. 



E. versicolora ...birch 



P. syringaria, h. lilac, privet, elder, 



honeysuckle ; s. feed up this A, 

 month, and a second brood 

 appears in August H 



E. alniaria alder, birch, sallow, E. 



beech, &c. 



tiliaria oak, sallow, birch, E. 



alder 

 fuscantaria, b. ash, privet ; eats 



round holes in the leaves 



,, angularia... oak, birch, beech, &c. 



B. hirtaria lime, elm, ash, and 



fruit trees 



A. prodromaria oak, birch, elm, nut 



T. consonaria ...beech, oak, birch 



B. fuliginaria ...fungi ; on timber ,, 

 P. baiularia, h. ...oak. Covers itself 



with fragments of leaves, &c., 

 after every moult 



E. omicronaria, e. maple ; s. beech 



(l punctaria oak ,, 



pendularia ...birch 



A. trigeminata h. ? probably 



some low plant ; will eat knot- 

 grass 



ornata, s., h. thyme, marjorum ; 



will also eat mint 

 promutata ... yarrow, mugwort, 



creeping cinquefoil 

 straminata, h. ? 



mancumata . 



grass 

 subsericeata. 



? will eat knot- 

 ? will eat knot- 



grass 

 emutaria, h. ...Triticum repens ; 



will also eat M. lupulina, L. 



corniculatus, Chenopodium, 



mint, and knotgrass 

 emarginata ...convolvulus, Galium 

 pusaria oak, nut, alder, 



birch, sallow 

 temerata sloe, wild cherry, 



buckthorn? 

 taminata wild cherry, sallow, 



buckthorn ? 



pictaria (?) ...stunted, and un- 

 healthy-looking sloe bushes 

 pulveraria ...sallow, nut, privet 

 carbonaria ...sallow, birch 

 atomaria Centaurea, trefoils, 



&c. 

 citraria wild carrot, trefoil, 



&c., near the coast 

 aurantiaria ...hawthorn, birch, oak 

 decolorata, b. to m. seed-capsules 



of Lychnis dioica 

 venosata in seed-capsules of 



Silene inflata, and Lychnis 



dioica 



pulchellata ...in foxglove fl. 

 valerianata ...Valerian officinalis, 



fl. 

 plumbeolata Melampyrum pra- 



tense, fl. 



isogrammata clematis, fl.-buds 

 pygmoeata, m. Stellaria holostea, 



fl. Will also eat Cerastium 



tomentosum, fl. 



lariceata larch, and spruce 



pusillata spruce 



indigata juniper, and Scotch 



fir ; will eat cypress, in confine- 

 ment 

 vulgata hawthorn, willow, 



golden rod, ragwort, &c. 



