THE LEPIDOPTERIST'S CALENDAR 



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IMAGOS] 



AUGUST 



H. peregrina ... 

 chenopodii ...atfl., and 1. 

 suasa, s., 2.... 

 C. solidaginis ... 

 C. vetusta, e., h. at fl. 

 exoleta, e., h. at fl. 

 X. furcifera, h..- -at ivy; rests on tree 

 trunks 



H. peltigera may be started from 



herbage 



armigera at ivy 



scutosa formerly nr. Silloth 



A. sulphuralis ...at 1. ; s. on fl. of 

 knapweed, in the day time 



A. luctuosa flies in the sunshine, 



over fl. , in clover fields, &c. 



A. urticse 



triplasia 



P. orichalcea ...on the coast 

 chrysitis, 2.... among nettle 



bractea 



festucae in salt marshes; 



flies over Lychnis fl., &c. 



iota among ground ivy 



gamma flies in the sunshine 



ni, 2 



interrogationis flies wildly ; rests 

 on rocks, and stumps, in dull 

 weather 

 G. libatrix, h. ...in cellars, and on 



palings, trees, &c. 

 A pyramidea ... 

 tragopogonis hides in windows 

 ,, maura s. rests on inner sur- 

 face of roofs of outhouses 



S. anomala at heath, and flying 



along hedgerows, at night ; 

 remains fine but a very few 

 days after emergence 



C. fraxini 



nupta at rest, on trees and 



walls ; soon alarmed, when 

 approached ; comes to 1. 



in the New Forest, 

 Norfolk, &c.;all 

 the genus are 

 somewhat restless 

 when boxed, un- 

 less the box is 

 capacious 



promissa 

 sponsa ... 



H. rostralis, h. ... 



H. albistrigalis at rush fl., and s. 



sugar 



,, costsestrigalis at rush fl., and s. 

 sugar 



H. derivalis comes to 1. 



A. flexula beaten from hedges 



O. dentalis on the coast, among 



viper's bugloss 



P. fimbrialis comes to 1. 



farinalis in stables, &c. 



glaucinalis .. in thatch ; and at 1. 



P. punicealis, 2. in grassy places ; 



flies in the sunshine 

 (l ostrinalis 2. ? 



R. sanguinalis 2? flies at dusk 



H. cespitalis 2. ? 



E. cingulalis 2? on grassy hill- 

 sides, &c. 



anguinalis 2. ? ...on grassy hill- 

 sides, &c. 



C. lemnalis among the weeds of 



duckweed-covered ponds ; flies 

 at dusk ; comes to 1. 



P. stratiotalis . . .among water plants; 

 flies at dusk ; comes to 1. 



A. niveus, b. ...at rest, on twigs, &c. 



in weedy ponds and rivers, 

 close to the water's edge, or 

 flying slowly over the surface 



B. flavalis.... in chalk, and lime- 



stone districts, on the S. coast 

 P. forficalis 2 ?... gardens 



stramentalis... beaten from under- 

 growth, in woods, fens, &c. 

 S. sticticalis at 1., and fl. 



)f palealis among wild carrot, 



and Peucedanum; on the S.E. 

 coast 



cinctalis clover fields ; comes 



tol. 



S. alpinalis on the tops of moun- 

 tains, in Perthshire, c. 



lutealis in hedges 



ferrugalis beaten from hedges ; 



flies at dusk ; comes to fl. , and 

 sugar 



decrepitalis ... 



S. Zelleri beaten out of old 



willows, and hawthorns 



