﻿CAPPERIA 
  HETERODACTYLA. 
  489 
  

  

  June, 
  1905, 
  in 
  the 
  extreme 
  north 
  of 
  Sutherland 
  (Cruttwell, 
  Ent. 
  Mo. 
  

   Mag., 
  xli., 
  p. 
  260). 
  

  

  Habits. 
  — 
  The 
  species 
  is 
  rarely 
  to 
  be 
  disturbed 
  during 
  the 
  morning, 
  

   bat, 
  as 
  the 
  afternoon 
  advances, 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  readily 
  started 
  from 
  its 
  

   hiding-places, 
  among 
  the 
  herbage, 
  where 
  Teucrium 
  scorodonia 
  grows. 
  

   It 
  flies 
  more 
  freely, 
  however, 
  in 
  the 
  late 
  afternoon, 
  although 
  the 
  early 
  

   evening 
  is 
  undoubtedly 
  its 
  natural 
  time 
  of 
  flight, 
  and 
  Barrett 
  notes 
  

   that, 
  on 
  one 
  occasion, 
  on 
  a 
  rough 
  piece 
  of 
  ground 
  beside 
  the 
  roadway, 
  

   between 
  Norwich 
  and 
  Eanworth, 
  a 
  thunderstorm 
  impending, 
  one 
  

   afternoon, 
  made 
  the 
  " 
  plumes 
  " 
  so 
  lively, 
  that 
  they 
  danced 
  over 
  the 
  

   Teucrium 
  like 
  Tipulae; 
  the 
  same 
  observer, 
  however, 
  notes 
  that, 
  

   normally, 
  the 
  moth 
  hides 
  itself 
  during 
  the 
  day 
  in 
  patches 
  of 
  woodsage, 
  

   and 
  can 
  hardly 
  be 
  induced 
  to 
  fly, 
  except 
  in 
  the 
  afternoon, 
  and 
  then 
  very 
  

   sluggishly, 
  but 
  at 
  dusk 
  it 
  dances 
  about 
  in 
  a 
  lively 
  manner, 
  sometimes 
  

   in 
  plenty, 
  over 
  the 
  same 
  patches. 
  Bower 
  found 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  readily 
  

   disturbed 
  in 
  the 
  afternoon 
  of 
  June 
  24th, 
  1887, 
  at 
  Box 
  Hill, 
  occasionally 
  

   flying 
  on 
  its 
  own 
  account 
  later 
  in 
  the 
  afternoon, 
  whilst 
  on 
  July 
  14th, 
  

   1878, 
  he 
  was 
  able 
  to 
  disturb 
  specimens 
  by 
  walking 
  through 
  their 
  

   haunts, 
  at 
  Brandon. 
  South, 
  however, 
  records 
  that 
  the 
  imagines 
  were 
  

   seen 
  darting 
  about 
  in 
  the 
  sunshine 
  among 
  a 
  large 
  patch 
  of 
  Teucrium 
  

   in 
  Tilgate 
  Forest, 
  in 
  1882, 
  an 
  observation 
  doubtless 
  that 
  led 
  to 
  Leech's 
  

   general 
  statement 
  that 
  " 
  the 
  species 
  is 
  local 
  but 
  plentiful 
  where 
  it 
  occurs, 
  

   flying 
  over 
  woodsage 
  in 
  the 
  sunshine 
  in 
  July." 
  Bankes 
  says 
  that, 
  in 
  

   Dorset, 
  the 
  imago 
  can 
  be 
  disturbed 
  from 
  among 
  its 
  foodplant 
  in 
  the 
  

   daytime, 
  but 
  is 
  then 
  very 
  sluggish. 
  Its 
  true 
  flight-time 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  

   in 
  the 
  evening. 
  At 
  Clevedon, 
  it 
  is 
  generally 
  on 
  the 
  wing 
  for 
  a 
  

   fortnight 
  or 
  so 
  each 
  year 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  usually 
  to 
  be 
  obtained 
  by 
  beating 
  

   wood-sage 
  and 
  low-growing 
  bramble-bushes 
  in 
  the 
  daytime, 
  flying 
  for 
  

   a 
  yard 
  or 
  two, 
  and 
  then 
  generally 
  settling 
  on 
  the 
  flowers 
  of 
  the 
  wood- 
  

   sage. 
  It 
  is 
  rather 
  a 
  difficult 
  insect 
  to 
  follow 
  during 
  flight, 
  being 
  so 
  

   similar 
  in 
  tint 
  to 
  the 
  herbage 
  (Mason). 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  This 
  species 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  most 
  particular 
  in 
  its 
  choice 
  

   of 
  habitat, 
  and 
  we 
  know 
  many 
  spots 
  where 
  Teucrium 
  scorodonia 
  grows 
  

   abundantly, 
  yet 
  where 
  we 
  could 
  never 
  find 
  the 
  insect. 
  Gregson 
  says 
  

   that 
  it 
  was 
  first 
  taken 
  freely, 
  in 
  Britain, 
  in 
  Pettypool 
  Wood, 
  in 
  the 
  

   Delamere 
  Forest 
  district. 
  Atmore 
  notes 
  that 
  the 
  species 
  is 
  exceedingly 
  

   local 
  on 
  the 
  heaths 
  in 
  the 
  King's 
  Lynn 
  district, 
  where 
  the 
  foodplant 
  

   grows 
  in 
  patches, 
  every 
  one 
  of 
  which, 
  however, 
  does 
  not 
  produce 
  the 
  

   species 
  ; 
  he 
  notes 
  that 
  it 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  less 
  particular 
  in 
  the 
  New 
  

   Forest, 
  where 
  the 
  species 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  very 
  abundant. 
  Barrett 
  says 
  

   that 
  the 
  species 
  prefers 
  the 
  patches 
  of 
  wood-sage 
  that 
  grow 
  on 
  open 
  

   heaths, 
  in 
  extensive 
  gravel-pits, 
  or 
  in 
  open 
  woods, 
  and 
  appears 
  rarely 
  to 
  

   be 
  found 
  on 
  a 
  hedgebank 
  or 
  under 
  bushes, 
  although 
  the 
  plant 
  may 
  

   be 
  there 
  in 
  abundance 
  ; 
  it 
  prefers 
  sand-heaths 
  and 
  gravel-pits 
  to 
  

   woods. 
  South, 
  however, 
  says 
  that 
  the 
  insect 
  occurs 
  on 
  stunted 
  plants 
  

   of 
  Teucrium 
  growing 
  on 
  a 
  dry 
  embankment, 
  in 
  a 
  fir 
  plantation 
  in 
  

   Tilgate 
  Forest, 
  and 
  Cambridge 
  notes 
  that 
  it 
  occurs 
  in 
  woods 
  among 
  

   Teucrium, 
  scorodonia, 
  at 
  Bloxworth, 
  and 
  Freer 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  found 
  

   sparingly 
  on 
  Cannock 
  Chase. 
  Mason 
  observes 
  that 
  he 
  could 
  only 
  find 
  

   it 
  in 
  one 
  restricted 
  locality 
  in 
  Clevedon, 
  r/:., 
  in 
  an 
  open 
  glade 
  in 
  a 
  wood 
  

   growing 
  on 
  a 
  limestone 
  hill. 
  At 
  Folkestone 
  it 
  is 
  found 
  freely 
  on 
  the 
  

   undercliri' 
  in 
  the 
  Warren, 
  not 
  far 
  from 
  the 
  railway-station 
  there, 
  whilst 
  

   its 
  first 
  record 
  as 
  British 
  was, 
  as 
  noted 
  above, 
  from 
  Delamere 
  Forest. 
  

   In 
  Belgium, 
  Derenne 
  also 
  records 
  it 
  as 
  very 
  abundant 
  in 
  the 
  Forest 
  of 
  

  

  