The YOUHG 8ATUBAUST: 



A Monthly Magazine of Natural History. 



Part 68. AUGUST, 1885. Vol. 6. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL YEAR. 



By ALBERT H. WATERS, B.A. 



AUGUST. 



Fluttering in the August sun 



Butterflies of every hue : 



Purple, yellow, crimson, blue, 



'Mongst the flowers all day they play, 



Beautiful and bright as they. 

 When the sun his course has run, 

 And the twilight's gloom comes on, 



Out from many a hiding place 



Comes there forth a myriad race, 



Winged moths unnumbered fly, 



" Thorns" and " Mochas," " Gold-tails," Chi, 



Silver-blotched festuca, bella, 



Nanatella, bifractella, 



"Grass-moths," "Heralds," Tortrices, 



Mellonella (foe to bees), 



Space will not permit to write 



All that fly at dim twilight. 



Butterflies are still a very conspicuous feature in the entomological world. 

 The magnificent Swallow-tailed {Papilio Machaon) may still be seen in the 

 fen districts, and the " Brimstone M {Gonepteryx rhamni), the Pale Clouded 

 yellow {Colias hyale) y the Eed Admiral {Pyrameis atalanta), the Peacock 

 {Vanessa Id), the Camberwell Beauty {Vanessa antiopa), the Brown Hair- 

 streak {Thecla betulce), the Lulworth Skipper {Pamphila action), and the 

 Silver- spotted Skipper {Eesperia comma). Regarding the second of these 

 butterflies, it seems a thousand pities some better name cannot be agreed 

 upon among entomologists than that by which it is generally known. The 

 lemon-coloured rhamni is surely undeserving of so mal- odorous a name as the 

 " Brimstone " butterfly. 



Besides the above, the second brood of the Green- chequered White {Pieris 

 daplidice), the Wood White {Leucophasia sinapis) t the Wall {Satyrus meg- 



