THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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genus Tceniocampa should be looked out for at the sallow bloom, and I should 

 have a great deal to say about them, but as they were all described and 

 figured in this magazine last year (see April number) I think it unnecessary 

 to say more now. 



The Tceniocampce are not the only moths we may see now at the sallows, 

 for Trachea piniperda, Cerastis vacinii, Cerastis spadicea, Scopelosoma 

 satettitia, Dasycampa rubiginea, Hoporina croceago, Calocampa vetusta, 

 Calocampa exoleta, Xylina conformis, Xylina rhizolitha, Xylina semibrunnea, 

 Xylina petrificata, Gonoptera libatrix, Hybcrnia progemmaria, Anisopteryx 

 cescularia, Cidaria miata, Cidaria psitticata, Anticlea badiata, Scopula 

 ferrugalis, &c, also visit them, and we may occasionally observe Xylocampa 

 lithoriza also. Brephos parlhenias often flies about the sallow bloom in the 

 day-time in the neighbourhood of birch woods. 



We may also try sugar on mild March evenings. The moths we may 

 expect to see at the banquet we provide them are H. croceago, C. vetusta, 

 C. exoleta, all the members of the genus Xylina, the hybernated Herald Moth 

 (G. libatrix, which we may also find at rest on palings), H. rostralis, and 

 occasionally C. miata and C. psitticata ; some, if not all of the Tceniocampa 

 also come to sugar. 



Light will attract Dasypolia templi, Selenia illunaria, Phigalia pilosaria, 

 Amphydasis prodromaria, Uybernia rupicapraria, the before mentioned A, 

 cescularia, Cidaria fluviata, Scotosia dubitata and S. ferrugalis. The first 

 named species we also obtain by turning over stones in its localities. 



We may also find the following moths in mild weather in March, resting 

 on palings, viz -.—Cymatophora rideus (at the end of the month in mild 

 seasons), X. lithoriza, P. pilosaria, A. prodromaria (and oak trunks), 

 Tephrosia crepuscularia (and on larch trunks), H. leucophearia and H. 

 progemmaria (also tree trunks), Larentia multislrigaria (behind tufts of 

 grass), and we may also find A. cescularia on both palings and tree trunks 

 and in similar situations in the day-time. 



When larva hunting at night with a lantern you will probably find the 

 greenish-grey caterpillars of Mania typica, with oblique whitish streaks and a 

 whitish line along each side, feeding on docks. The other larvae you will 

 probably come across are Tryphcena orbona and inter jecta on low plants, and 

 you may perhaps find some of the following : — Aporophylla australis (if you 

 live in the localities where it occurs) on low plants, L. testacea and A. 

 unanimis on grass (the former on the lower part of the stems), T. fimbria 

 and the local T. subsequa on low plants, also M. furva on grey hair grass 

 (A. canescensj with C. alsines on chick weed (Alsines media) L. impura on 

 sedge (Carex) and L. straminea on grasses. The last is local and rare. 



