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  BRITISH 
  LEPIDOPTEEA. 
  

  

  (Dalglish) 
  ; 
  July 
  9th, 
  1896, 
  at 
  Corsemalzie 
  (Gordon) 
  ; 
  June 
  2nd, 
  1897, 
  

   at 
  Tuddenham;" 
  August, 
  1898, 
  at 
  Mucking 
  (Burrows); 
  July 
  30th, 
  1898, 
  

   at 
  Eastwood 
  (Whittle) 
  ; 
  August 
  15th, 
  17th, 
  1898, 
  at 
  Buckerell 
  

   (Riding) 
  ; 
  August 
  23rd, 
  1898, 
  at 
  Campsie 
  (Dalglish) 
  ; 
  August 
  12th- 
  

   22nd, 
  1899, 
  at 
  Shoeburyness 
  (Whittle); 
  June 
  29th, 
  1900, 
  at 
  Crookston 
  ; 
  

   July 
  14th, 
  1900, 
  at 
  Dundonald 
  (Dalglish) 
  ; 
  abundant 
  mid- 
  July, 
  1900, 
  

   about 
  Chester 
  (Arkle) 
  ; 
  July 
  22nd- 
  September 
  8th, 
  1900, 
  at 
  Shoebury- 
  

   ness 
  (Whittle) 
  ; 
  August 
  lst-3rd, 
  1900, 
  common 
  at 
  St. 
  Margaret's 
  Bay 
  

   (James); 
  July 
  11th, 
  1901, 
  at 
  Oxton, 
  Devon 
  (Studd); 
  June 
  10th, 
  1902, 
  

   common 
  at 
  Keswick 
  (Beadle); 
  June, 
  1903, 
  at 
  Waldridge 
  Fell 
  (Harrison); 
  

   July 
  11th, 
  1903, 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Purbeck 
  (Bankes); 
  June 
  18th-30th, 
  July 
  

   23rd- 
  August 
  10th, 
  1903, 
  on 
  the 
  Norfolk 
  Broads 
  (Edelsten); 
  June 
  16th, 
  

  

  1903, 
  at 
  Wicken 
  ; 
  June 
  18th, 
  1903, 
  at 
  Chippenham 
  (Burrows) 
  ; 
  July 
  

   16th, 
  1903, 
  in 
  Hesleden 
  Dene 
  (Harrison); 
  July 
  23rd, 
  1903, 
  at 
  Keswick 
  

   (Beadle) 
  ; 
  August 
  13th, 
  1903, 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Purbeck 
  (Bankes) 
  ; 
  June 
  

   20th, 
  1904, 
  at 
  Folkestone 
  (Purdey): 
  June21st, 
  1904, 
  in 
  Chattenden 
  Woods 
  

   (Ovenden) 
  ; 
  July 
  6th-12th, 
  1904, 
  at 
  Witherslack 
  (James) 
  ; 
  June 
  10th, 
  

   August 
  11th, 
  1904, 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Purbeck 
  (Bankes) 
  ; 
  September 
  5th, 
  

  

  1904, 
  at 
  Gomshall 
  (Chapman); 
  June 
  23rd, 
  1905, 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Purbeck 
  

   (Bankes). 
  

  

  Habits. 
  — 
  The 
  species 
  is 
  on 
  the 
  wing 
  naturally 
  before 
  dusk, 
  flying 
  

   freely, 
  from 
  just 
  before 
  sundown, 
  about 
  the 
  scabious 
  plants 
  on 
  which 
  

   the 
  larvas 
  have 
  fed. 
  The 
  imagines, 
  too, 
  are 
  readily 
  disturbed 
  in 
  the 
  

   daytime, 
  when 
  they 
  hide 
  among 
  the 
  lower 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  plants 
  of 
  

   scabious, 
  or 
  the 
  surrounding 
  herbage, 
  flitting 
  away 
  softly, 
  gently, 
  with 
  

   their 
  conspicuous 
  long 
  legs 
  hanging 
  stiffly 
  below, 
  and 
  then 
  clinging 
  to 
  

   supports, 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  turned 
  round, 
  or 
  moved 
  from 
  side 
  to 
  side, 
  by 
  the 
  

   slightest 
  breeze. 
  Bankes 
  says 
  that 
  the 
  moth 
  flies 
  at 
  dusk, 
  and 
  Barrett 
  

   states 
  that 
  it 
  can 
  hardly 
  be 
  said 
  to 
  hide 
  during 
  the 
  day, 
  for 
  it 
  hangs 
  on 
  

   the 
  scabious 
  plants, 
  and, 
  when 
  disturbed, 
  dances 
  away 
  with 
  a 
  curious 
  

   Tipula-Yike 
  flight, 
  its 
  long 
  legs 
  conspicuous, 
  and 
  apparently 
  buoyant, 
  

   but 
  only 
  flies 
  a 
  few 
  yards 
  to 
  a 
  similar 
  resting-place 
  on 
  the 
  scabious 
  or 
  

   grass. 
  It 
  must, 
  however, 
  fly 
  also 
  at 
  night, 
  for 
  we 
  have 
  taken 
  it 
  at 
  

   light 
  on 
  Wicken 
  Fen, 
  and 
  Edelsten 
  has 
  found 
  it 
  similarly 
  on 
  the 
  

   Norfolk 
  Broads. 
  Here, 
  also, 
  the 
  same 
  entomologist 
  has 
  taken 
  it 
  on 
  

   the 
  wing 
  at 
  dusk, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  at 
  flowers 
  of 
  Sedum 
  spectabile, 
  in 
  August 
  

   and 
  September, 
  and 
  at 
  flowers 
  of 
  rocket 
  in 
  May, 
  at 
  Enfield. 
  Reid 
  used 
  

   to 
  take 
  it 
  flying 
  among 
  Scabiosa 
  succua 
  at 
  dusk, 
  at 
  Pitcaple, 
  and 
  

   Gordon 
  asserts 
  that 
  it 
  came 
  to 
  flowers 
  of 
  honeysuckle 
  at 
  Corsemalzie. 
  

   Rossler 
  notes 
  that 
  it 
  flies 
  in 
  dry 
  sunny 
  weather 
  among 
  Scabiosa 
  

   sitccisa, 
  at 
  Wiesbaden. 
  He 
  also 
  suggests 
  that 
  the 
  imago 
  may 
  

   hybernate, 
  but 
  there 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  no 
  doubt 
  that 
  the 
  insect 
  hybernates 
  

   in 
  the 
  larval 
  stage. 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  We 
  find 
  it 
  difficult 
  to 
  say 
  what 
  are 
  not 
  the 
  habitats 
  of 
  

   this 
  insect. 
  Wherever 
  Scabiosa 
  grows 
  abundantly, 
  there 
  the 
  species 
  

   may 
  be 
  expected. 
  In 
  the 
  ditches 
  at 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  ridings 
  in 
  

   Chattenden 
  Woods, 
  in 
  the 
  rough 
  ash 
  plantations 
  there, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   fields 
  outside, 
  we 
  have 
  taken 
  this 
  species 
  regularly 
  and 
  commonly; 
  

   it 
  is 
  abundant 
  among 
  the 
  thick 
  herbage 
  that 
  grows 
  on 
  the 
  

   chalkhills 
  at 
  Cuxton 
  and 
  Hailing, 
  particularly 
  on 
  the 
  borders 
  of 
  the 
  

   cultivated 
  ground, 
  where 
  great 
  clumps 
  of 
  ' 
  Scabiosa, 
  Centaurea, 
  

   Hypericum, 
  etc., 
  come 
  down 
  to 
  the 
  ploughed 
  edge 
  of 
  a 
  field. 
  In 
  the 
  

   thick 
  growth 
  of 
  the 
  hedgesides 
  between 
  Strood 
  and 
  Cuxton 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  