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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



Limacodes TissTUDO. — July. By beating boughs. Denny Wood, New 

 Forest ; Larva at Darenth Wood, Kent. Eare. 



PjioCris Statices. — June. Used to abound in a rank pasture near 

 Bishop's Wood, Hampstead, fluttering about the herbage by day. 



Zyg.exa Filipendul/E. — June. Used to abound on the railway near 



Barnet (Herts.) 



Nola Cucullatella. — May and June. At rest on leaves of apple, in 



gardens near London. 



Bali as Prasinana. — Used to take this species by beating among clumps 

 of Birch. May and June. Hampstead and Highgate Woods. 



H. Quercana. — Hadley Wood, Southgate (Middlessex), &c. The larva 

 in May on oak. Not common. 



Calligexia Miniata. — July and August. By beating oak by day and 

 by mothiug in woodland paths, where it " skips " along at some height from 

 the ground about dusk. Bishop's Wood, Hampstead, not common; New 

 Forest, common but rather local. 



Lithosia Mesojiella. — July. Flies with the same uneven undulation as 

 the preceeding, but about three feet from the ground, over heather, at dusk. 

 Always in woods as far as my experience goes ; not common and very local 

 in different parts of the New Forest. 



S. Aureola. — May. By beating undergrowth of oak or beech ; the pretty 

 larva to be taken full fed in the same way in August and September. Not 

 common. Bishop's Wood, Hampstead (once) and Pond Head enclosure, 

 New Forest. 



L. Helveola (Deplana). — July. At sugar and by beating oak and beech ; 

 larva on lower boughs of same, May and June. Woods in New Forest. 



L. Complanula. — July and August. At sugar, also by beating ; larva 

 on lichens or beech, &c. May and June. Woods, New Forest. 



L. Complaxa. — July. By beating young fir- trees on heaths, near Wim- 

 borne, Dorset. 



L. Quadra. — July and August. At rest on trunks of oak, &c, at some 

 height from the ground : Also at sugar rather late in the evening. In the 

 New Forest it is usually said to be obtained by breeding. In Denny Wood 

 you may be pretty sure of the larva by beating oak and beech in May and 

 June, and it is said to be obtained yet more plentifully by scaling the trunks, 

 and by searching for the pupa under lichen and moss. 



Eulepia Cribrum.— Taken by day in July, darting with great rapidity 

 hither and thither over heather: The night between each resting place is I 



