5196 Entomological Botany, 



allusions to long ears, repeated ad nauseam ; and even the learned 

 Kirby, when he called a certain part of an insect the u nose," was not 

 secure from witticisms having an occult reference to the Pope of 

 Rome. Therefore, although the use of the rays may be supposed 

 precisely identical with that of bones, still the term " bones " would 

 be a dangerous one to adopt. The hay-making machine performs the 

 w T ork of a dozen women ; but it would be rather an innovation to call 

 it " twelve women." When Mr. Haliday has given his eyes another 

 rub, we shall, I am sure, agree on this question, as we already do on 

 the affinities of Stylops, Thrips and Pulex. I have trusted to inquiry 

 alone, and not to repetition, for the confirmation of my views. 



Entomological Botany {with more especial reference to the Plants 

 frequented by the Tineina). By H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



(Continued from page 5L39). 



Crataegus Oxyacantha. Hawthorn. 



Few plants are more extensively patronized by the insect tribes 

 than the hawthorn. It has not, it is true, as many admirers as the 

 oak ; but compare the size of the hawthorn bush with the oak tree, 

 and it will be found that the former, in proportion to its size, affords 

 pabulum to a larger number of species. 



Speyer enumerates the following species as feeding on the haw- 

 thorn :— Aporia Crataegi, Porthesia auriflua, Gastropacha quercifolia, 

 Lasiocampa Quercus, Trichiura Cratsegi, Pcecilocampa Populi, Erio- 

 gaster Lanestris, Clisiocampa neustria, Diloba caeruleocephala, Acro- 

 nycta Psi, A. tridens and A. Euphrasia, Amphipyra pyramidea, 

 Miselia culta, M. Oxyacanthae, Catocala paranyrnpha, Rumia Cra- 

 taegata, Ennomos lunaria, E. illunaria, E. illustraria, Chlorochroma 

 viridata, C. biipleuraria, Hibernia defoliaria, H. aurantiaria, H. leu- 

 cophearia, Nola cucullatella, Tortrix laevigana, Myelois advenella, 

 and Scythropia Crala3gella. (The species of which the names are in 

 Italics have not yet been found in this country). 



It must, however, be evident, at a mere glance, that this is only an 

 infinitesimally small portion of the actual number of hawthorn- 

 feeders. Speyer only mentions one Tinea; and if we find, on closer 

 scrutiny, that instead of one there are already 24 species known 



