﻿ADKINIA 
  GRAPHODACTYLA. 
  535 
  

  

  July 
  7fch 
  and 
  8th, 
  1842 
  (Zeller); 
  [bred 
  June 
  23rd-30th, 
  1857, 
  from 
  larva? 
  

   found 
  near 
  Augsburg, 
  in 
  early 
  May, 
  on 
  Gentiana 
  verna 
  (Freyer).] 
  In 
  

   Germany 
  it 
  is 
  recorded 
  after 
  mid-August, 
  1888, 
  near 
  Finkenkrug 
  

   (Hering) 
  ; 
  July 
  4th, 
  1878, 
  on 
  the 
  Island 
  of 
  Wollin 
  (Schleich) 
  ; 
  June 
  

   24th 
  and 
  29th, 
  1878, 
  in 
  the 
  meadows 
  near 
  Spandau 
  and 
  at 
  Finkenkrug 
  

   (Stange), 
  a 
  record 
  that 
  shows 
  that, 
  in 
  the 
  Berlin 
  district, 
  the 
  insect 
  is 
  

   double-brooded, 
  since 
  imagines 
  emerged 
  July 
  29th, 
  1893, 
  from 
  larvae 
  

   from 
  Finkenkrug 
  that 
  had 
  pupated 
  on 
  the 
  17th 
  (Hering), 
  a 
  fact 
  since 
  

   confirmed 
  by 
  Dadd 
  (supra). 
  Imagines 
  emerged 
  freely 
  from 
  July 
  30th 
  to 
  

   the 
  middle 
  of 
  August, 
  1906, 
  from 
  larvae 
  taken 
  July 
  14th 
  on 
  the 
  Wornitz 
  

   (Mosigkauer 
  Haide), 
  in 
  Anhalt 
  (Gillmer). 
  Imagines 
  emerged 
  from 
  

   September 
  15th-19th, 
  1902, 
  from 
  larvae 
  found 
  at 
  Bouveret, 
  on 
  the 
  shores 
  

   of 
  Lake 
  Geneva, 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  August 
  (Wheeler). 
  The 
  first 
  moth 
  reared 
  

   from 
  the 
  Wimborne 
  larvae, 
  taken 
  by 
  Mathew, 
  in 
  1906, 
  appeared 
  on 
  August 
  

   29th, 
  the 
  next 
  on 
  the 
  31st, 
  and 
  so 
  on 
  up 
  to 
  September 
  20th. 
  On 
  

   September 
  1st 
  he 
  netted 
  an 
  imago 
  on 
  the 
  ground 
  whence 
  the 
  larvae 
  

   came, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  4th 
  two 
  more 
  were 
  beaten 
  from 
  mixed 
  herbage 
  in 
  the 
  

   locality 
  where 
  the 
  gentian 
  occurred. 
  

  

  Habits. 
  — 
  Mathew 
  says 
  that 
  on 
  September 
  1st 
  and 
  4th, 
  he 
  beat 
  one 
  

   or 
  two 
  of 
  the 
  moths 
  during 
  the 
  day 
  from 
  a 
  mixture 
  of 
  coarse 
  herbage 
  

   growing 
  in 
  a 
  boggy 
  place 
  ; 
  he 
  adds 
  that, 
  when 
  disturbed, 
  the 
  moth 
  

   only 
  flies 
  for 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  and 
  settles 
  again 
  on 
  a 
  stem 
  of 
  grass 
  or 
  some 
  

   other 
  plant, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  very 
  easy 
  to 
  catch 
  ; 
  it 
  probably 
  flies 
  gently 
  at 
  dusk. 
  

   Gillmer 
  says 
  that 
  the 
  "plumes" 
  which 
  emerged 
  in 
  the 
  breeding-cage 
  

   between 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  July 
  and 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  August, 
  1906, 
  were 
  not 
  observed 
  

   to 
  pair. 
  By 
  day 
  they 
  hung 
  about 
  the 
  breeding-cage, 
  on 
  the 
  curtains 
  of 
  

   the 
  room, 
  etc., 
  with 
  their 
  wings 
  spread 
  out 
  horizontally, 
  but, 
  at 
  dusk, 
  

   they 
  commenced 
  to 
  fly 
  and 
  tried 
  to 
  get 
  into 
  the 
  open 
  air, 
  and 
  this 
  would 
  

   seem 
  to 
  be 
  their 
  natural 
  time 
  of 
  flight. 
  Of 
  the 
  imagines 
  which 
  Freyer 
  

   found 
  near 
  Augsburg, 
  and 
  which 
  we 
  have 
  already 
  noted 
  as 
  being 
  

   possibly 
  coprodactylus 
  (since 
  the 
  larvae 
  fed 
  on 
  Gentiana 
  verna), 
  he 
  writes: 
  

   "This 
  species 
  has 
  a 
  light 
  floating 
  flight, 
  and 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  sitting 
  on 
  

   grass- 
  blades, 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  June 
  and 
  beginning 
  of 
  July, 
  in 
  forest 
  

   meadows." 
  

  

  Habitats. 
  — 
  The 
  species 
  is 
  distinctly 
  addicted 
  to 
  the 
  marshes 
  in 
  its 
  

   more 
  lowland 
  localities 
  (probably 
  also 
  in 
  the 
  mountains). 
  It 
  was 
  first 
  

   found 
  by 
  Freyer 
  among 
  the 
  Bavarian 
  mountains 
  at 
  Bad 
  Kreith, 
  near 
  

   Tegernsee. 
  It 
  was 
  then 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  Schneeberg 
  (Mann 
  and 
  Fischer 
  

   von 
  Boslerstamm), 
  and 
  the 
  Sommering 
  (Zeller), 
  and 
  then 
  locally 
  in 
  

   Switzerland, 
  in 
  mountain-meadows, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  woods 
  on 
  the 
  mountains 
  

   on 
  either 
  shore 
  of 
  the 
  lake, 
  at 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  August, 
  in 
  the 
  neighbour- 
  

   hood 
  of 
  Zurich 
  (Frey). 
  Hofmann 
  says 
  that 
  the 
  true 
  <S. 
  graphodactyla 
  

   occurs 
  mostly 
  in 
  mountain 
  regions; 
  it 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  Upper 
  Bavaria 
  

   (Tegernsee, 
  Urfeld), 
  in 
  the 
  Allgau, 
  in 
  the 
  Austrian 
  alps 
  (Schneeberg, 
  

   Sommering, 
  etc.), 
  in 
  the 
  Tyrol, 
  Garniola, 
  and 
  in 
  Switzerland 
  near 
  

   Zurich. 
  Its 
  reported 
  occurrence 
  near 
  Regensburg, 
  he 
  says, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  in 
  

   North 
  Germany, 
  rests 
  on 
  its 
  confusion 
  with 
  S. 
  var. 
  pneumonanthes, 
  

   Biittn., 
  or 
  some 
  other 
  species. 
  This 
  latter 
  is 
  recorded 
  as 
  occurring 
  in 
  

   marshy 
  meadows 
  in 
  various 
  parts 
  of 
  Germany. 
  Hering 
  observes 
  that, 
  on 
  

   July 
  15th, 
  1893, 
  Dr. 
  Schleich 
  and 
  himself 
  found 
  it 
  m 
  a 
  div 
  bog-meadow, 
  

   near 
  Finkenkrug, 
  where 
  there 
  were, 
  besides 
  many 
  bushes 
  of 
  Myrica 
  

   gale, 
  a 
  few 
  plants 
  of 
  Gentiana 
  pneiunonanthe 
  in 
  bloom, 
  among 
  which 
  a 
  

   worn 
  specimen 
  of 
  Stenoptiliapneiimonanthes(plagiodactylus) 
  was 
  captured. 
  

  

  