56 LOBOPHORA HEXAPTERATA. 



dish-brown ; the skin rather glossy. (John Hellins, 

 12th January, 1877; E.M.M., April, 1877, XIII, 

 249.) 



LOBOPHORA VIRETATA. 



Plate CXXXVII, fig. 4. 



On looking over the scanty records of this species 

 for the last twenty years, I find nothing to show that 

 it has more than one brood in the year, or more than 

 one food-plant, viz., privet, for the larva. In the 

 belief, therefore, that some further light on its history 

 may be desirable, I have here put together the few 

 facts which within the last two seasons have become 

 known to me, and which go to show that Lobophora 

 viretata must at least be partially double-brooded, the 

 flights being in May or June and again in August, 

 and that, as is generally seen in the case of double- 

 brooded species, the moths of the first flight from 

 hybernated pupae are larger specimens than those of 

 the second flight, and also that the larva is by no 

 means confined to one food-plant. 



On the 12th of July, 1875, I received from the 

 Rev. Bernard Smith three larvae which had been 

 found by him each in a slight web amongst flower- 

 buds of Ligustrum vulgare ; they continued to feed 

 three days longer, eating, as I observed, the interior 

 of the flower-buds, portions of the leaves, and the 

 rind of the flower-stalks; on the 17th they were spun 

 up, the moth appearing on the 20th of August. 



Mr. Gr. F. Mathew also informs me that at the end 

 of last May and through June he was feeding up 

 some Ptilophora pkmiigera, and that whilst providing 

 them with fresh food he occasionally noticed between 

 united leaves at the ends of the sycamore twigs some 

 small geometers, but that taking them to be only 

 Gheimatobia brumata he threw away most of them ; 

 after the P. plumigera larvae had gone to earth he left 



