234 AUGUST. 



SELECT CALENDAR OF BRITISH INSECTS. 



Nebria livida. Coast of Yorkshire. To 9. 



Callistus lunatus. Kent. 



Zabrus gibbus. Corn-fields. 



Ceotrupes sylvaticus, Wood Dor-Beetle. Heaths. 



Ripiphorus paradoxus. Wasp nests. 



Locusta flavipes, Yellow-legged Locust. 



Acheta campestris, Field Cricket. Banks. To 9. 



Colias Enropome, The Clouded Sulphur Butterfly. Meadows in the 



South. To 9. 

 \anessa Antiope, The Camberwell Beauty. Willow? and oaks. 



To 9. 

 Vanessa Atalanta, The Red Admiral. Gardens. To 9. 

 Cynthia Cardui, The Painted Lady. Heaths and woods. To 10. 

 Hipparchia Blamlina, Scotch Argus. Isle of Arran and Durham. 

 Thecla Betula^, Brown Hair-streak Butterfly. Birch woods. 

 Lycicna Chryseis, The Purple-edged Copper Butterfly. Epping and 



Ashdown Forest. To 9. 

 Lyeajna Virgaureae, The Middle Copper Butterfly. Isle of Ely. 

 Pamphila Comma, The Pearl Skipper. Heaths and downs. To 9. 

 Porthesia auriflua, Brown-tail Moth. Hedges. 



Ripiphorus paradoxus. This curious insect 

 is, I believe, invariably found in the nest of the 

 common wasp, or its immediate vicinity. The 

 female deposits her eggs in the cells of the 

 wasp's comb, and leaves them to be fed, pro- 

 tected, and reared in the same manner as the 

 young wasps. This curious proceeding is only 

 equalled by the cuckoo, who leaves her eggs to 

 the hedge-sparrow. 



In this part of the country there are i'ew 

 wasp-nests without one or more of this insect, 

 if the cells be carefully examined. 



Locusta ; (locusts and grasshoppers.) This 

 country is only occasionally visited by the de- 



