Insects. 



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CiDARIA 



Picata 

 Corylata 

 Muptata, D. L. 



CiDARIA 



Fulvata 



Pyraliata 



Dotata 



Marmoraia, D. L. 



Carsia 



Iml)utata 



Sagittata 

 Russata 



Anaitis 

 Plagiata 

 Praeformata ? 



Immanata, D. L., var. 

 praec. teste Gn, 



^ Pelurga 

 Comitata 



Chenopodiata, D. L. 



LiTHOSTEGE 



Nivearia 



Suffuraata 

 Silaceata 

 Prunata 

 Testata 



EUBOLIA 



Cervinaiia 



Mensuraria 



Palumbaria 



Bipunctaria 



Lineolata 



Chesias 

 Spartiata 

 Obliquaria 



Tan AGRA 



Cbaerophyllata. 



Achatinata, D. L. 

 Populata 



— Communicated hy Henry Douhleday, Esq. [The names added in Italics are either 

 those used in Mr. Doubleday's ' List ' for the same species, or are supposed by 

 M. Guenee to be varieties of the species the name of which precedes each in Koman 

 characters.] 



Tephrosia laricaria, — I have now by me the pupae of laricaria, which I hope 

 shortly to see in their last stage. The larvas, which I beat from the larch while in 

 Lancashire last August, are so varied in colour that it would not be possible to give an 

 accurate description of them unless they were before me. Having also taken and bred 

 the larva of crepuscularia (which feeds upon the oak), I state as my firm belief that 

 laricaria is not a variety of it. I have taken crepuscularia in the greatest abundance, 

 both in this neighbourhood and elsewhere in the Midland Counties, but never took a 

 single laricaria nor one intermediate variety. — Henry Burney ; Wavendon Rectory^ 

 February 20, 1858. — From the ^ Intelligencer 



Gnophos obscuraria. — With regard to obscuraria, as far as my experience goes, I 

 should decidedly incline to the opinion that it is a distinct species, and not a variety 

 of pullaria. About eighteen years ago, when mothing on Parley Heath, in Hamp- 

 shire, in company with Mr. Dale, we found the former insect in the most wonderful 

 profusion that can be conceived. They were at rest in the dry mounds of cut turf or 

 peat, on brushing the sides of which with the net they flew out in the most distracting 

 abundance. I caught a great number, all of which were exactly alike, — no interme- 

 diates between that and pullaria. Indeed, I have generally considered obscuraria to 

 be a heath insect. Pullaria I have usually met with in stone quarries and chalk pits. 

 Near Bath it is not at all uncommon in the large free-stone quarries, and among the 

 Bath Hampton Rocks, also in Portland, and is quite common in the chalk pits on the 

 South Downs near Lewes and Brighton. Neither occur in this part of England. 



Gnophos pullaria. — The larva of this species hybernat^s about half fed ; it begins 

 to feed again in April. I found two some years since near Matlock ; they fed up 

 upon the salad burnet (Poterium sanguisorba, L.), and from one of them I bred the 

 perfect insect. They closely resembled Hiibner's figure of the larva of G. obscuraria. 

 I found them by pulling up the grass and low-growing plants by the roots. The 

 larva conceals itself by day. There was a great deal of Helianthemum vulgare inter- 



