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NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA. 



By B. LOCKYER. 

 ( Continued from page 200 J 



Fidonia Piniaria. — Flying round firs at some height from the ground in 

 the day-time. May. West Wickham and the New Forest. 



Aspjlates Citbabia. — To be kicked up on weedy banks near the coast. 

 August. Also on gas lamps. Southend, Essex. 



Abraxas Ulmata. — May and June. " Ballards," Addington. By beat- 

 ing and mothing. Larvae near Tintern, Monmouth. August. 



Ligdia Adustata. — To be beaten from bushes by day, or taken flying 

 rapidly along woodland paths in the evening in the New Forest. May. 



Lomaspilis Marginata. — By beating and mothing in woods. May and 

 June. Highgate, Hampstead, Surrey, Combe, New Forest, West Wickham. 



Larentia Uidymata. — Common about blackberry bloom and bushes on 

 outskirts of woods. Larvse on low plants under the shade of same bushes. 

 Bishop's Wood, Hampstead, Highgate Wood. June. Eather local. 



L. Olivata. — Very common, especially haunting Clematis vitalba, and 

 among bedstraw along precipitous banks of the Wyndcliff and other parts of 

 the banks of the Eiver Wye, near Chepstow, Monmouth. Beating and moth- 

 ing. July and August. 



L. Pectinitaria. — By beating bushes near and mothing over heather 

 (even small patches in woods), all round Lyndhurst (Matley Heath, Denny 

 Wood, &c.) May and June. 



Emmelesia Decolorata. — Very local. Abundant along hedgerows where 

 the food-plant is common. Flies in a weak jerky manner about dusk. I 

 have had six or more in the net at once, and could not pin them fast enough. 

 Only occurred by a hedge between Bishop's Wood, Hampstead, and the heath, 

 (skirting two sides of a field.) Lays readily in a chip box. May and June. 



Eupithecia Venosata. — One just out of the pupa near Eastwood (South- 

 end), Essex, in a very weedy lane between fields of mustard, &c. June. 



E. Centatjreata. — To be taken amongst rank herbage and in gardens 

 where the larvse eat the petals of cultivated geranium.) Also fond of settling 

 on glass windows, walls, fences, &c, comes to light, and flowers of Eumex. 

 May and June. 



E. Subnotata. — At light and on palings near waste places. J une and 

 July. Emerges from pupa in the afternoon, and may then be taken expand- 



