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colour and markings. The imago appears in May in woods and hedges, 

 flying in the sunshine. It occurs at Darenth and Swanscorahe Woods, 

 at Dulwich, and other places round London ; at Epping and the New 

 Porests, Devonshire, &c." In the Manual of British Butterflies and 

 Moths, II, p. 266, I give the time of appearance "May," and add: 

 " Widely distributed, and not scarce in the South ; flying in the 

 sunshine." 



Herrich-Schaffer, who adopts in his Schmetterlinge von Europa 

 the name Fischerana for this species, says of it (vol. iv, p. 225) : "In 

 Mecklenburg, Bohemia, also near Eatisbon in the valleys of the Labor 

 and the Danube ; in May and June." Heinemann, in his Schmetterlinge 

 Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Wickler, p. 138, says : "More in the 

 North of Germany, in May and June, and again in August, among 

 sloe." On this I must remark that I much doubt its being double- 

 brooded. 



Hartmann, in his Kleinschmetterlinge der Umgegend Miinchens, 

 p. 36, gives the somewhat startling information : " larva from September 

 to May in the swollen knots on the stems and branches of Juniperus 

 communis; imago June and July," but surely some other species 

 must here be meant. Rossler, in his Lepidoptera von Wiesbaden, 

 p. 247, says: " Throughout May on the margins of woods, in thickets 

 and hedges; in the years 1857 — 59 almost common, since then, scarce." 



Jourdheuille, in the Annales Ent. Soc. France, 1870, p. 127, says 

 of Lobesia permixtana : " larva on AncTiusa officinalis,^'' a food-plant 

 which is assigned by Rossler to the species he places immediately 

 after permixtana, Lohesia artemisiana, the Eudemis artemisiana of 

 Staudinger and Wocke's Catalogue. 



Brischke, in the Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 1876, p. 68, 

 says that he bred Lohesia permixtana from a larva "found August 21st, 

 1871, in the tips of the stem (" in den Stengelspitzen ") of Solidago 

 virgaurea. The larva was about 8 mm. long, pale brown-grey or 

 brown-red; head and following segment shining brown, the latter with 

 a pale central streak ; aiial shield shining brown. When full fed it 

 entered the earth and spun a longish cocoon. The imago appeared on 

 the 11th April, 1872." T presume it had been kept in a warm room. 



I would remark here that Herr Brischke, of Danzig, only seems 

 to have found a single larva, and though his note was not published 

 till nearly four years after the appearance of the first permixtana 

 reported to have been bred, he does not appear to have met with any 

 more of the larvae. The observation may be a good one, but it is 

 extremely desirable to have it confirmed by those who have oppor- 

 tunities of collecting in August amongst Solidago. Snellen, in De 



