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THE LEPIDOPTERIST'S CALENDAR 



IMAGOS] 



L. Corydon, e. ... chalk downs, 

 limestone hills 



Acis formerly near 



Leominster ; now supposed to 

 be extinct in this country 

 Argiolus, e. ... among holly, and 

 ivy ; this brood is seldom so 

 abundant as the spring brood 

 H. comma, e. ...hills, &c. 



linea fields, and woods 



,, Actseon, m....if the season is for- 

 ward ; on the Dorset coast, 

 flying with H. linea ; does not 

 continue fine long after it is out 



A. atropos at rest, on palings, 



&c. 



D. euphorbise ...has occurred on the 

 coast, and at Killing, Ireland, 

 among sea spurge, and cypress- 

 leaved spurge 



lt galii on the sand-hills at 



Deal, and other parts of the 

 coast, among bedstraw 

 S. chrysidiformis at Folkestone, and 

 Eastbourne, and probably other 

 places on the S.E. coast; flies 

 from about 9 to II, a.m., and 

 3 to 4, p.m. ; "booms along 

 like a burnet" 



tl ichneumoniformis by sweeping the 

 fl. of rushes, &c., on slopes on 

 the coast ; hovers over fl. 

 muscseformis on the coast, among 



sea pink 



scolseformis ...on birch trunks 

 bembeciformis among osiers, sal- 

 lows, &c. 



Z. sesculi on trees, &c. 



C. ligniperda ... on trees, and palings 

 H. sylvinus, e. ...on heaths, and grassy 

 lanes, and banks ; flies just be- 

 fore dusk 



velleda on walls, and in cre- 

 vices of birch trunks 



L. asellus has been beaten 



Z. minos flies in the sunshine, 



and rests on fl. 

 N. cucullatella . . . on trees, and palings 



strigula 



centonalis 



JULY 



and 



N. albulalis has been taken in 



young ash plantations, in Kent 



N. senex, e in wet places ; flies 



at night 



mundana beaten from weeds, 



against loose stone walls 



,.on lichen-covered 



...beaten from trees 

 ,. on lichen-covered 



S. irrorella 

 trees 



C. miniata 



L. mesomella 



trees 

 muscerda ... in fens, among alder; 



flies in the evening 

 aureola on larch trunks, high 



up ; and may be beaten from 



trees 

 deplana beaten from yew, 



and other trees 

 ,, lurideola comes to fl., rests 



among herbage, &c. 

 molybdeola ... 

 complana flies at dusk, and 



after dark 

 griseola on lichen-covered 



trees ; comes to fl. 

 stramineola (var.) by moist wood- 

 sides, and ditches 

 quadra beaten from fir, and 



oak ; comes to fl. of lime, &c. 

 rubricollis ...flies in the sunshine, 



over trees, &c. 



E. grammica heaths, &c. 



cribrum heaths, &c. 



D. pulchella has been taken flying 



by day, in stubble fields, proba- 

 bly near the field forget-me-not, 

 its food-plant 



E. jacobese gardens, fields, &c.; 



flies in the sunshine 



C. caia gardens, &c.; at rest; 



very sluggish 

 L. chrysorrhaea at rest 



auriflua at rest, on hedges, 



trees, &c. 



salicis, e on willows, and pop- 

 lars 



dispar formerly found at 



large ; now bred artificially 



monacha at rest 



O. ccenosa fens, and marshes 



