THE LEPIDOPTERISX'S CALENDAR 



IMAGOS] 



AUGUST 



if any species are good they will probably be found to be much damaged by 

 the rough treatment they have received. " Many species, especially the good 

 ones, settle under the lamp, or on some part of the frame-work where they 

 are not easily got at, or even seen, without climbing the lamp-post ; many lie 

 very close to the frame, so that a keen inspection is required to detect them. 

 Many species viewed from below appear like dead leaves, bits of stick, mud, 

 &c. The time to commence the operation of 'lamping' is about 10 p.m. 

 Very few Moths come sooner ; but they continue to appear till dawn. From 

 two to three o'clock is a capital time." 



Many species which are ordinarily single -brooded in this country, are double, 

 or treble-brooded on the Continent, where the summer is longer and hotter ; 

 but sometimes, in this country, in a hot season, an additional brood of an insect 

 will appear. Thus, in 1868 there was a third brood of S. Megaera. When 

 this occurs, of course the times ordinarily set down for the appearance of a 

 species should be somewhat- advanced. 



P. Machaon, s. ...fens, and marshes T. 



L. sinapis, 2. ...woods; the autumn 

 brood is rather smaller than the 

 spring brood 

 P. brassicse, 2. ...gardens, &c. 



,, rapse, 2 gardens, &c. P. 



,, napi, 2 gardens, &c. 



Daplidice, 2. has been taken in 



lucerne fields L. 

 G. rhamni, h. ...in woods 



C. Edusa, h. ...lucerne, and clover 

 fields, railway banks, &c. Fond 



of fl. 



Hyale, h. ...lucerne, and clover 



fields ; more especially near the 

 coast 



A. Latona fields, woods, &c. 



,, Euphrosyne, s. woods, &c. 



Selene, s. ...woods, &c. 

 V. polychloros, h. about elms 



() Antiopa, h. ...attracted by sugar, S. 



ivy bloom, and cossus-infected T. 

 trees 



lo, h woods, &c. ; at fl. H. 



fr Atalanta, h. gardens, &c. ; fond 



of fl., and fallen fruit 



cardui, h. ...atfl. ; often rests on 



a hot dusty road, and on the A. 



lead roofs of churches, and S. 



other buildings, in the sunshine D. 



E. Medea 



S. yEgeria, 2. ...woods, and lanes 



,, Megoera, 2. ...at fl., in lanes, and C. 



on walls, and banks H, 



rubi, s. 2. ...in woods, &c. 



betulse in woods, at fl. ; in 



wet weather may be readily 

 taken with the fingers, as may 

 many other butterflies 



Hippothoe ...formerly in Cam- 

 bridge fens 



Phloeas, s. ...fields, &c. 



Boetica has been recently 



taken in this country 



^Egon at rest, on heather, 



at night 



agestis, 2. ...on hills, &c. 



Alexis, e. 2. ...fields, and hills 



Adonis, 2. ...chalk downs, and 

 limestone hills 



Corydon, b. chalk downs, and 

 limestone hills 



Argiolus, 2. ...among holly, and 

 ivy, and at fl. 



Alveolus, s... woods, &c. 



Tages, 2 dry heaths, com- 

 mons, and hills 



sylvanus, 2. ...woods, and grassy 

 hills 



hills, &c. 



on the Dorset coast 

 at rest 



.at fl., at dusk 

 .on the coast 



galii on the coast 



lineata 



celerio at fl., at dusk 



sylvinus, b. . . .flies just before dusk 



comma . . 

 Actseon .. 

 Atropos .. 

 convolvuli 

 euphorbise 



