﻿ADKINIA 
  ZOPHODACTYLUS. 
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  sugar 
  after 
  dark 
  (at 
  Dartmouth); 
  it 
  was 
  on 
  flight 
  as 
  early 
  as 
  7.45 
  p.m. 
  

   on 
  July 
  10th, 
  1903 
  (in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Purbeck). 
  Jeffrey 
  found 
  it 
  flying 
  

   among 
  the 
  foodplant 
  in 
  the 
  daytime 
  at 
  Saffron 
  Walden, 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  

   August, 
  1865. 
  It 
  would 
  appear 
  that 
  the 
  $ 
  s 
  of 
  the 
  summer 
  (July) 
  

   brood 
  lay 
  their 
  eggs 
  almost 
  at 
  once, 
  yet 
  this 
  would 
  not 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  

   the 
  case 
  with 
  the 
  £ 
  s 
  of 
  the 
  autumn 
  brood, 
  for 
  on 
  September 
  26th, 
  

   1904, 
  Chapman 
  notes 
  of 
  some 
  60 
  imagines 
  that 
  had 
  been 
  out 
  some 
  

   days, 
  that 
  some 
  had 
  died 
  (? 
  from 
  keeping 
  them 
  in 
  closed 
  jars), 
  and 
  the 
  

   $ 
  s 
  of 
  these 
  were 
  absolutely 
  void 
  of 
  eggs, 
  though 
  containing 
  fat 
  bodies 
  

   and 
  other 
  tissues. 
  The 
  first 
  30 
  or 
  so 
  out 
  (between 
  August 
  28th 
  and 
  

   September 
  5th) 
  were 
  sleeved 
  on 
  a 
  flowering 
  plant 
  about 
  the 
  latter 
  date, 
  

   and 
  careful 
  examination 
  on 
  September 
  26th 
  showed 
  nearly 
  all 
  alive, 
  

   but 
  no 
  trace 
  of 
  an 
  egg 
  ; 
  by 
  November, 
  however, 
  all 
  the 
  imagines 
  of 
  

   this 
  species 
  had 
  died, 
  whilst 
  specimens 
  of 
  Amblyptilia 
  cosmodactyla 
  , 
  

   kept 
  under 
  similar 
  conditions 
  to 
  the 
  Adkinia 
  zophodactylns, 
  went 
  on 
  

   satisfactorily 
  with 
  their 
  hybernation. 
  It 
  is 
  remarkable 
  that 
  we 
  do 
  not 
  

   yet 
  know 
  how 
  this 
  species 
  hybernates. 
  We 
  have 
  long 
  since 
  suspected 
  

   that 
  it 
  did 
  so 
  as 
  a 
  young 
  larva 
  hidden 
  within 
  the 
  foodplant," 
  as 
  is 
  the 
  

   case 
  with 
  its 
  nearest 
  allies. 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  reported, 
  however, 
  by 
  

   Lambillion 
  (Rev. 
  Mens. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Namiu; 
  1904, 
  p. 
  56), 
  that 
  Brabant 
  

   has 
  found 
  the 
  imago 
  in 
  April, 
  in 
  France, 
  and 
  that 
  Colignon, 
  in 
  

   January, 
  1899, 
  found, 
  hybernating 
  in 
  a 
  grotto 
  in 
  the 
  valley 
  of 
  the 
  

   Meuse, 
  Avorn 
  imagines, 
  referred 
  by 
  Lambillion 
  to 
  this 
  species. 
  t 
  

   We 
  ourselves 
  have 
  an 
  example 
  of 
  our 
  own 
  capturing, 
  labelled 
  

   " 
  Orpington. 
  End 
  of 
  May, 
  1889," 
  and 
  Bankes 
  states 
  (in 
  litt.) 
  that 
  

   a 
  worn 
  $ 
  , 
  which, 
  however, 
  he 
  was 
  able 
  to 
  identify 
  with 
  certainty, 
  

   was 
  taken 
  near 
  Wareham, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  P. 
  Curtis, 
  on 
  May 
  28th, 
  1904. 
  

   Hofmann 
  notes 
  the 
  capture 
  of 
  a 
  dark 
  $ 
  at 
  Stuttgart, 
  on 
  November 
  

   14th, 
  and 
  adds 
  that, 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  Zeller 
  found 
  the 
  imago 
  in 
  

   April. 
  Still 
  we 
  feel 
  doubt 
  about 
  the 
  imago 
  hybernating. 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  On 
  the 
  chalk-hills 
  at 
  Cuxton, 
  where 
  Erxjthraea 
  

   centaurium 
  grows, 
  among 
  and 
  near 
  great 
  patches 
  of 
  tall, 
  rough, 
  chalk- 
  

   frequenting 
  plants, 
  stunted 
  rose, 
  and 
  blackthorn 
  bushes, 
  Adkinia 
  

   zophodactylns 
  is 
  not 
  uncommon. 
  At 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  the 
  steep 
  mountain 
  

   slopes 
  behind 
  the 
  Grand 
  Hotel, 
  at 
  Bourg 
  d' 
  Oisans, 
  a 
  similar 
  over- 
  

   grown, 
  tangled, 
  wilderness, 
  a 
  slope 
  covered 
  with 
  wild 
  flowers 
  and 
  

   grass, 
  that 
  had 
  once 
  been 
  a 
  field, 
  but 
  had 
  been 
  allowed 
  to 
  go 
  out 
  of 
  

   cultivation, 
  produced 
  this 
  species 
  in 
  great 
  abundance, 
  whilst 
  it 
  was 
  

   also 
  frequent 
  in 
  another 
  wild 
  uncultivated 
  field, 
  where 
  the 
  foodplant, 
  

   however, 
  grew 
  abundantly, 
  at 
  St. 
  Michel-de-Maurienne. 
  Hudd 
  notes 
  

   it 
  as 
  occurring 
  on 
  the 
  Leigh 
  downs 
  ; 
  on 
  railway-banks 
  near 
  Hartlepool 
  

   (Gardner) 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  slopes 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  cliff 
  at 
  Ventnor 
  (South) 
  ; 
  in 
  a 
  

   field 
  where 
  a 
  great 
  deal 
  of 
  Erythraea 
  centaurium 
  grows, 
  at 
  Shoebury- 
  

  

  * 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  objected 
  by 
  various 
  Lepidopterists 
  that 
  this 
  is 
  impossible, 
  as 
  

   Erythraea 
  centaurium 
  is 
  an 
  annual. 
  We 
  are 
  quite 
  aware 
  that 
  many 
  authorities 
  

   state 
  this, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  net. 
  so 
  (see 
  1'hil. 
  Bee, 
  xvii., 
  p. 
  72); 
  the 
  plain 
  is 
  do 
  doubt 
  

   biennial, 
  and 
  flowering-shoots 
  ran 
  lie 
  found 
  under 
  favourable 
  conditions 
  well 
  into 
  

   November 
  in 
  some 
  years. 
  

  

  f 
  Laiubillion's 
  statement 
  (<>/>. 
  c/7., 
  p. 
  ;">(>) 
  runs 
  : 
  " 
  Kn 
  Janvier. 
  L899,si 
  DOS 
  souvenirs 
  

   sent, 
  exacts, 
  Al. 
  Colignon, 
  en 
  visitant 
  une 
  grotte 
  de 
  la 
  valine 
  de 
  la 
  Mease, 
  trouva 
  une 
  

   enorme 
  quantite* 
  de 
  Pt^rophores, 
  de 
  differentes 
  especes, 
  hivernant 
  la. 
  colles 
  a 
  la 
  

   vohto, 
  (Mi 
  compagnie 
  de 
  aombreux 
  diurnes, 
  du 
  genre 
  Vanesse 
  et 
  des 
  noctuelles. 
  

   II 
  lions 
  en 
  apporta 
  quelques-uns 
  pour 
  Lea 
  determiner; 
  mais 
  ils 
  etaiout 
  pom- 
  la 
  

   plupart 
  si 
  d&fralchis, 
  qu'il 
  otait 
  presqu'impossible 
  de 
  les 
  reconnaitre 
  ; 
  pen 
  d'especes 
  

   I'uroiil. 
  deterniinees. 
  Plus 
  tard, 
  dans 
  lo 
  uonibro. 
  nous 
  reeoiuuiines 
  des 
  S. 
  ;onho- 
  

  

  dactylus" 
  This 
  after 
  all 
  is 
  net 
  very 
  convincing, 
  because 
  of 
  their 
  condition, 
  etc. 
  

  

  