334 Insects, 



Euthalia miata Tliera variata Oporabia dilutata 



Ctesias spartiata coniferata — Id, 



Note on the appearance of Moths during rain. In recording the capture of Nyssia 

 hispidaria (Zool. 176), Mr. Edleston says that he " captured forty-five males and eight 

 females, notwithstanding it rained incessantly," thereby implying that such weather 

 is unfavourable. Now it is well known to the old London collectors, and this may be 

 the means of making it known to others, that a warm rain, particularly after drought, 

 is exceedingly favourable to the development of moths from the pupa state, and they 

 rarely omit, on such occasions, to search for them. I have seen dozens captured from 

 palings during and after rain, where previously not one was to be seen. — /. W. Doug- 

 las ; Cohurg Roady Kent Road, August, 1843. 



Note on the capture of Xanthia Xerampelina, at Crambe, near York. On Saturday, 

 the 26th of August, as I was getting out of my gig to open a gate between Crambe 

 and Howsham, I saw a moth lying on its back in the road ; on picking it up, it proved 

 to be a fair specimen of the centre-barred sallow {Xanthia Xerampelina), dead but not 

 stiff. I know of but one other specimen captured in this neighbourhood, and that was 

 five or six years ago, by Mr. Cook, at Langwith, near this city, who saw another the 

 same day, but lost it. A specimen was taken about 1826 or 1827, at Bromsgrove, in 

 Worcestershire, by the Rev. R. P. Alington. — Beverley R. Morris, M.D.; York, Sep^ 

 tember 2, 1843. 



Note on the capture of Calocampa vetusta, at Birch wood, and also at Hammersmith. 

 I had the pleasure of taking a fine specimen of this rare moth at the sugar, at Birch 

 wood, a few days back ; and on the same evening, and at the same time (half past 8), 

 my mother took a specimen at the same bait in our garden at Hammersmith. I lit- 

 tle expected to meet with it in our neighbourhood. I may also mention among other 

 things that I took at Birch wood, on the same evening, six specimens of Charaeas fus- 

 ca, plenty of Xanthia fulvago and flavago, and one of the variety known until recently 

 as gilvago, as well as abundance of Ceropacha diluta : and on the week previous, I 

 took two of Segetia neglecta. — Samuel Stevens ; 38, King St., Covent Garden, Sep- 

 tember 19, 1843. 



Note on the Dates of Appearance of some Lepidopterous Insects at Teignmouth. Ow- 

 ing to the mild spring, insects appeared this year much earlier than they usually do; 

 for instance, I took the female of Poutia Cardamines on the 8th of April; on the 9th, 

 Polyommatus Argiolus, male ; 10th, the last day of the continuance of wann weather, 

 Hipparchia iEgeria, Pontia Rapae, P. Cardamines, Vanessa 16 and V. Urticae were 

 plentiful during the morning and warmer parts of the day, but in the evening there 

 was a fall of snow, which lasted with intermissions for about a week, of course, inter- 

 rupting their appearance for a time. May 4th, Lozotaenia trifasciana. June 1st, Spi- 

 lonota rusticana ; this insect may always be found where there is plenty of Tussilago 

 Farfara, which I suppose the larva feeds on ; 10th, Pterophorus trigonodactylus, Pt. 

 carphodactylus, Botys borealis, on the cliffs at Teignmouth ; 20th, Eudorea angustea, 

 this insect is double-brooded, appearing again in September and October ; 28th, Pte- 

 rophorus lunadactylus, the larva of this insect feeds on Ononis arvensis, on the heads 

 of which plant it may generally be found, it is green and slightly hairy ; Eudorea pal- 

 lida, a double-brooded insect, appearing at the same time as E. angustea. July 14th, 

 Augerona prunaria, the male of this insect often puts on the garb of the female, and 

 vice versa ; the female is often of a light yellow-ochie colour, instead of orange, and 

 much larger than the mule, which may always be known by its pectinate antenna' ; 



