THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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L. margiuata, Montanata, Typica, augur, 

 Pronuba. 



July nth. — IV. album, Hyperanthus. 



July 12th. — IV: album, Hyperanthus, Sylva- 

 nus, Tithonus. 



July 13th. — Sambucata. 



July 14th. — Thymiaria. 



July 15th. — Chrysitis, Margaritaria. 



July 16th. — Complanula, Potatoria, Succen- 

 turiata. 



July 18th. — Auriflua. 



July 19th.— Auriflua, Elinguaria, Sambucata. 



July 20th. — Polychloros. 



July 2 1 st. — Io, Pectinitaria. 



July 25th. — Polychloros. 



July 27th. — Polychloros, Atalanta. 



August 2nd. — Polychloros, Agestis. 



August 8th.— Io. 



August 13th. — Agestis, Megaera, Elinguaria- 

 — George A. Harker, 28, Brooke Road, 

 Blundellsands, Liverpool. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS 



THE FAUNA OF PLYMOUTH. 



By Mr. G. C. Bignell, M.E.S. 



(Beprinted by permission of the author from the 

 Transactions of the Plymouth Institution and Devon 

 and Cornwall Natural History Society, 1881.) 



HYMENOPTERA, ICHNEUMONIDiE. 



Arranged according to the Rev. T. A. Marshall's Cata- 

 logue, published by the Entomological Society of 

 London, 1872. 



Part I. 

 (Continued from page 343 J 



Pezomahus. — 



zonatus. Bred from Spider's eggs {ageleixa 



brunnea), taken at Cann Wood. 



procursorius. This is a new British 



species. I bred it last year (1880) from 



a larva, feeding on oak in Cann Wood. 



rufulus. 



Henicospilus. — 



ramidulus. 



Ophion. — 



lutewm. 



minutus. This is a new British species : 

 captured at Laira. 



(To be continued.) 



BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



By J. E. Robson ; with figures from life by 

 S. L. Mosley. 

 (Assisted by Contributors to the Y.N.) 



PAMPHILA, Fabr. y 

 HESPERIA, Cur. J 



"Hesperia, Cur., Hes'peria, an ancient 

 name for Italy. Cf. Virg. lEn. I. 530." 

 — A.L. 



I do not know the derivation of the Fab- 

 rician name, but there was an Egyptian lady 

 called Pamphila, living in the time of Nero, 

 who wrote several historical works in Greek. 



Pamphila is a large genus, considerably 

 over 300 species having been described. 

 The colour is generally fulvous, with brown 

 or orange markings. They sit, when at rest, 

 with only the forewings elevated. The 

 following arrangement is according to 

 Doubleday, but it is right to say that recent 

 writers do not place our five species in the 

 same genus. Dr. Standinger has Paniscus in 

 the genus Carterocephalus, Ld. Kirby, 

 places Linea and Actaon in the genus Thy- 

 melicus, Hub., and Paniscus in Heterop- 

 terus, Durn, for which Carterocephalus 

 Led. is a synonym. 



The British species may be thus known. 



I. — Dull dark brown : 



A with bright yellow spots, H. Paniscus. 

 B ,, indistinct markings, H. Actceon. 



II. — Rich fulvous : 



A No markings. H. Linea. 

 B Distinctly paler markings. 

 a underside indistinctly spotted. H. 

 Sylvanus. 



b underside with distinct white spots. 

 H. Comma. 



The male has generally a black or dark 

 streak across the wing. 



PANISCUS, PI. 26, Fig. 4. 

 Chequered Skipper. 

 "Paniscus, F., Panis'cus, diminutive of 

 Pan, the god of shepherds."— A.L. 



