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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA. 



By B. LOCKYER. 



( Continued from page 40. J 



A. Oculba. — July and August. Ou palings at light and at sugar. Out- 

 skirts of woods, gardens, fields of rank herbage, lanes, &c. Used to be 

 abundant about North London and in the New Forest. The larva feed in 

 the unopened culms of meadow soft-grass, its presence being betrayed by a 

 small black hole near the tip of the exterior sheath of the culm. It is rather 

 large as compared with the size of the moth, thick-skinned, smooth and 

 shiny, and with those of the genus Miana, which it resembles in shape (while 

 differing from them in not being like them, small for the size of the imago), 

 having the lively wriggling habit of a Tortrix larva. Eequires a tight fitting 

 cage. 



Miana Strigilis. — At sugar, in woods, fields, and gardens. June and 

 July. There is a grass-green variety of the larva, which feeds in March and 

 April exposed by night. 



M. Furuncula. — On flowers of Arctium and Rumex, and at sugar. In 

 great abundance. Also on palings, in rank pastures, gardens, and lanes, in 

 August and September. Most extraordinary varieties (one corresponding to 

 the var. conversaria of Boarmia repandata) may be obtained. 



Grammesia Trilinea. — At sugar in June. No rarity. Bishop's Wood, 

 Southwood, and New Forest. Yar. Bilinea rare in Bishop's Wood. 



Acosmetia Caliginosa — Flying by day amongst long grass in the broad 

 " rides " of Park Hill enclosure, New Forest. July. 



Caradrina Morpheus. — Flying over rank herbage in a field at Camden 

 Town, in June. I never saw it after 1868, when it was not rare. 



C. Alsines. — The larva rare at Higbgate (Southwood) in April. 



C. Cubicolaris. — Not very common in the same locality as C. morpkeus. 

 At light, sugar, and by mo thing. The larva on seeds of plantain in the 

 autumn. 



Eusina Tenebrosa. — At sugar in June and July. Females much scarcer 

 than males. Bishop's Wood, Southwood, and Denny Wood, New Forest. 

 No rarity. 



Agrotis Yalligera. — Bare on Yarmouth Sandhills, August, 1879. 



A. Puta. — Eare at sugar, Hurst Hill enclosure, New Forest. August. 



A. Sufeusa. — At sugar and light in rank pastures and woods. August 

 and September. Eare, Bishop's Wood, Camden Town, and Darenth Wood, 

 New Forest. 



