ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



BREPHA PARTHENIAS. Hubner. Curtis. Stephens. 

 Orange under icing. 



Light brown ; upper wings brown, sprinkled with 

 ash colour, with several very obscure whitish streaks, 

 of which two towards the posterior margin are most 

 distinct, and arise from two somewhat lunular 

 whitish spots on the costa ; anterior to the first is 

 a small bluish-ash stigmatiform spot with a dusky 

 margin, between which and the base of the wing, on 

 the costa, is a pale ashy spot : posterior wings pale 

 orange, with the base and inner margin broadly 

 black, with an angulated and sometimes interrupted 

 narrow black fascia in the middle reaching to the 

 costa, 1 and an irregular fimbria of the same colour : 

 cilia of the wings fuscus, slightly clouded with 

 cinereous, female paler. The caterpiliar feeds upon 

 poplars and willows : it is yellowish -green, with a 

 bluish-black line, and some black spots. The perfect 

 insect appears towards the end of March and begin- 

 ning of April, and may occasionally be found against 

 the trunks of trees ; but the best method of taking 

 this desirable insect is to search the sallows when in 

 blossom, on which the insect feeds, and they will 

 afford in fine weather, at this season of the year, good 

 sport to the entomologist. This insect flies high — 

 they mostly inhabit woods. We have occasionally 

 seen them in Coombe Wood, Surrey ; they have also 

 been taken at Colney Hatch Wood, near Finchley. 



