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THE YOUNG NATUEALIST. 



had escaped, I removed a thin slice, 

 with a sharp knife, off one side of the 

 cocoons, which enabled me to see how 

 the fabric was constructed. The foun- 

 dation cocoons consisted of eight ; the 

 next tier also contained eijht; the 

 others were above, but not in such 

 regular order. Those in the centre 

 were more or less five-sided, and in 

 general appearance looked like a mini- 

 ature piece of honeycomb. In length 

 the group was 7 millimetres, and 2^ in 

 height. 



MicROPLiTis fimipenfiis CRtzb.) A new 



British species. Bred 19th June from 



ToeniocmipcL miniosa. One only in a 



less than half -grown larva. 

 Tnedianus (Ruthe). A new British species. 



Bred 30th June from Cerastis spadicea. 

 mediator {E.Q\..)=dorsalis (Nees.) Bred 30th 



June from Cerastis sjpadicea and Toeni- 



ocampa stahilis. 

 Earinus affinis. Plym Bridge, 5th May. 

 Zemiotes alhiditarsus. Plym Bridge, 20th 



May. 



caligatus. Bred 23rd June from Eii])i- 

 thecia expallidata. 

 pROTELUs chrysoplvthalmus. Bred 1 2th July 



from H-imera pennaria. 

 Perilitus laticein. Hooe, 13th August, 

 medianus. Thirteen bred 31st May, from 



a larva of Ag^'otis tritici. 

 tdhicornis. Bickleigh, 16th September, 

 GANYGiioRus ruficornis. Plym Bridge, 7th 

 August. 



Centistes Uicidator. Bickleigh, 14th Sept. 

 Macrocentrus thoracieus. Bickleigh, 19th 

 September. 

 coUaris. Bred 19th July from Noctua 

 triangulmi. 

 Opius reconditor. Bickleigh, 28th May, 

 Ph^nocarpa ruficejjs. Hooe, 13th August; 

 Exeter, 23rd September. 

 consjmrcator. &haugh Bridge, 9th August 

 Dacnusa senilis. Plym Bridge, 7th August. 

 7, Claeence Place, Stonehouse, 

 30tli March, 1883. 



REPUTED 

 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA, 



By John E. Robson. 



No. V. CALLIMORPHA HERA. 



The Jersey Tiger. 



It may be considered presumptions on my 

 part to place among Reputed British Lepidop- 

 tera an insect that has already passed its 

 examination and received its credentials ; but 

 I am writing for beginners, and wish them to 

 understand the difference between an insect 

 that has occasionally found its way to this 

 country and another that resides here continu- 

 ally and perpetuates its race upon our shores. 

 It might readily be in the time to come that 

 Callimorplia Hera should effect a settlement 

 in Britain. There does not seem any reason 

 why it should not do so, and the entomolo- 

 gists of the next generation may be able to 

 place in their cabinets a series of tbis insect 

 all collected in Britain, some of them perhaps 

 bred from larvse found here. This is not so 

 at present, and the authentic captures of the 

 species are at present few and far between. 

 I do not know when it was first recorded as 

 British, but it is given in Morris's British 

 Moths, where the author says, "Localities 

 for this species are Newhaven in Sussex, 

 where one was captured by a little girl near 

 the end of the main street ; Brighton, where 

 one was seen by Mr. Cook of that town ; and 

 Wrexham, from whence a specimen captured 

 in August, 1859, is now in the cabinet of the 



British Museum Specimens had been 



recorded as having been taken in England 

 previously to those mentioned above. I saw 

 the species placed as British in the cabinet 

 of J. C. Dale, Esq., of Glanvilles ootton, 

 many years ago." These were so evidently 

 stray specimens that the Reverend Author 

 evidently did not think them enough to estab- 

 lish its claim to a place in the British list : 

 he therefore adds : — " I refer my readers to 



