A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



Cabera exanthemaria, Scop. Also generally 

 common in woods 



Bapta temerata, Schiff. Generally distributed 

 in the borders of woods, but not abun- 

 dant 



taminata, SchifF.; bimaculata, St.C. Mar- 



low, Chesham, Amersham, Chalfont St. 



Peter ; not usually common 

 Macaria liturata, Linn. Buckingham, Chesham, 



Chalfont St. Peter ; common at Black 



Park ; among firs 

 Halia wavaria, Linn. Generally common in 



gardens, its larva often injurious to 



gooseberry and currant trees, devouring 



their leaves 

 Panagra petraria, Hb. Chalfont St. Peter ; 



common among brake-fern on open 



commons 

 Strenia clathrata, Linn. Chalfont St. Peter, 



Amersham, Chesham, Buckingham ; com- 

 mon in clover fields and on railway 



banks 

 Fidonia atomaria, Linn. Halton, Chesham, 



Black Park ; abundant on all heaths 



piniaria, Linn. Chesham, Chalfont St. 



Peter, Black Park, Whittlebury Forest ; 

 common about Scotch fir trees 



Numeria pulveraria, Linn. Chalfont St. Peter, 

 Chesham ; in country lanes and hedges, 

 as well as the borders of woods 



Scodiona belgiaria, Hb. Taken at Chalfont 

 St. Peter by the Rev. J. S. St. John 



Eurymene dolobraria, Linn. Black Park, 

 Chesham, Chalfont St. Peter, Halton. 

 The Rev. J. Greene says : ' This 

 beautiful species I used to take in plenty 

 in the pupa state under moss on beech 

 trees in the Beech Wood ; also occa- 

 sionally on oaks; the larva enters the 

 moss at the first convenient place, and 

 in tearing it off (which must be done 

 by hand, not with the trowel) great 

 care must be taken in loosening the 

 edge of the moss, for there the pupa is, 

 I may say, invariably found ' 



Odontoptera bidentata, Linn. Generally dis- 

 tributed in wooded districts 



Ennomos autumnaria, Wenb.; alniaria, St. M. 

 The Rev. H. Harpur Crewe writes : 

 ' Some three or four years since I bred 

 a hopelessly crippled specimen from a 

 larva which I beat out amongst a num- 

 ber of those of E. angularia, in Buck- 

 inghamshire. I at once detected a slight 

 difference in its appearance and placed 

 it by itself. It was on the point of 

 laying up, and in a few days turned to 

 a most singular mottled pupa. In about 

 three weeks' time a crippled moth 

 made its appearance. The wood in 



which I beat it consisted almost en- 

 tirely of beech, but there were a few 

 oaks, birches and maples, and as I had 

 beaten them also, I cannot be certain 

 what it had fed upon.' This species 

 is not now the great rarity that it was 

 at that time (1857), but it is almost 

 confined to the extreme south coast, and 

 is but occasionally met with even there 

 Ennomos alniaria, Linn.; tiliaria, St.M. Ches- 

 ham, Buckingham, Halton, High Wycombe; 

 larvae beaten from poplar as well as 

 alder 



fuscantaria, Haw. Buckingham, High 



Wycombe, Halton, Marlow. The Rev. 

 Bernard Smith wrote : ' I have bred 

 seven specimens from the egg, all 

 males a circumstance which has oc- 

 curred in another instance known to 

 me, and which seems to indicate that 

 the female is really scarcer in this 

 species.' Larva on ash 



erosaria, SchiflF. Chesham, High Wycombe, 



Black Park, Halton ; larva upon oak, 

 not common 



angularia, SchifF.; quercinaria, St.C. Ches- 



ham, Buckingham, Chalfont St. Peter, 

 High Wycombe, the Chi/tern district ; 

 common at Ha/ton 



Crocallis elinguaria, Linn. Generally distri- 

 buted ; often to be seen sitting flatly 

 upon the grass or dead leaves under a 

 hedge, and conspicuous 



Himera pennaria, Linn. Generally distri- 

 buted in woods, but rarely seen except 

 when attracted by a strong light ; larva 

 common on various trees 



Selenia illustraria, Hb. ; tetralunaria, St.C. 

 Halton, Black Park, Chesham, and the 

 Chi Item district, but scarce 



lunaria, SchifF. Chesham, Black Park 



illunaria, Hb. ; bilunaria, St.C. Gener- 



ally distributed 



Pericallia syringaria, Linn. Black Park, Hal- 

 ton, Marlow, Chesham, Buckingham, 

 Leckhampstead ; male and female very 

 different, but each singularly beautiful 



Epione apiciaria, SchifF. Chesham, Bucking- 

 ham ; in damp places among sallow, 

 but not common 



Metrocampa margaritata, Linn. Generally 

 common in woods among oak, some- 

 times abundant 



Ellopia fasciaria, Linn. ; prosapiaria, St.C. 

 Chesham, Black Park, among Scotch fir; 

 not common here 



Biston hirtarius, Linn. Halton, Buckingham ; 

 not common 



prodromarius, SchirF. ; stratarius, St.C. 



Chesham, Buckingham, Halton, about 



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