THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



LOCAL LISTS. 



The Geometrina of Plymouth and vicinity. 

 (Continued from p. 35.) 



By G. C. Big nell, M.E.S. 



Gnophos obsairjfj. — Common. July and 

 August. Hedge banks around Stoke, 

 Whitsand Cliffs. Imago plentiful (July 

 10). Larva to be found only at night. 

 Pseudoierpna cytisaria. — Common. July. Plym- 

 bridge, Bickleigh vale, Shaugh, Ivy bridge. 

 Geometra papilioiuria. — Not common. July. 



Field near Cemetery, Cann Wood. 

 Iodis lactearia. — Common. June. In and 



near woods. 

 Henuthea thymiaria. — Common. June and 



July. Bickleigh, Shaugh, Plymbridge. 

 Ephyra punctaria. — Common. May and 

 August. Bickleigh, Cann Wood, Plym- 

 bridge. 



E. triiincaria. — Rare. May and August. 

 Bickleigh. 



E. omicronaria. — Does not occur in the 

 vicinity of Plymouth. I have taken it at 

 Exeter and Teign mouth, where its food 

 plant (Maple) grows abundantly 

 and August. 



Astiiena luteata. — Not common. June. Cann 

 Wood, Bickleigh. 



BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



• and the row of dots on hind wing is wanting ; 

 j the base of the wings is also often much 

 ; suffused with black. Underside. Forewing, 

 ! fulvous, with a few black m irk ;. Hiri I vi'tiisj, 

 three straw-colored bands, divided by two 

 I fulvous bands, all bordered with black, and 

 \ divided by the veins. There is a straw- 

 ! colored 'spot in the fulvous band nearest the 

 base as in the last species. Besides the ab- 

 I sence of the distinct black spots so charac- 

 \ teristic of the underside of Cinxia, the two 

 I species may be readily distinguished by the 

 | color of the paler bands, which is very much 

 j paler in Cinxia than in Athji'm. 

 J Larva-— Black, with white spots. The 

 spines orange-colored, with white tips on the 

 back, and all white at the sides, the spine 

 bristles, head, and legs are bl ick. Mr. New- 

 man points out the protective resemblance of 

 this larva to the flower of one of the food 

 plants — the Narrow-leaved Plantain, an 1 

 noticed that his specimens always crawled up 

 the flowering stems in the middle of the day. 



Pupa- — " Yerv short and obese, the color 

 is creamy white, variegated with black and 

 or a n ge , " — Newman. 



Food Plants — The narrow and broad 

 May J leaved plantain (Plantugo lanceolate and major), 

 wood sage ( Tettcrium soorodon ia), Germander 

 i speedwell (Veronica chatn-adrvas ), cow wheat 

 I (Melampyrum J, &C. 



Times of Appearance.— The imago 

 j may be found during June and July. On the 

 I Continent it is said to fly from May to 



By J. E. Ronsox ; with figures from life by August. The larva? hatch in about a fort- 

 night after the eggs are laid, and after feeding 

 for a short time hybernate at the roots of the 

 food plants, till the following spring, when 

 they feed up quickly . Like the last species they 



S. L. Moslev. 

 (Assisted by Contributors to the Y. N.) 

 20. ATHALIA. Plate 10, Fig. 4. 

 The Heath Primary. 



Athalia, Esp., AthalLi, the daughter of 

 Ahab, king of Israel — heroine of Racine's 

 tragedy, " Atkalie." — A.L. 



Imago.— Plate 10, Fig. 3, upper and 

 underside. Fulvous similarly marked to the 

 last species, but the black marks are broader, 



are fond of basking in the full rays of the 

 sun. 



Habitat- — Open places in woods, and 

 heathy localities. In England it seems con- 

 fined to the more southerly counties, and 

 does not occur in Scotland. Mr, Birchail 

 found it abundant at Killarney, in Ireland. 

 It is spread generally over Europe, but only 



