ToS J. W. ELLIS : LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE BOMBYCES. 



Fam. SA TURNIDAL. 

 SATURNIA, Schrank. 



Saturnia carpini, W.V. Common on mosses and heaths both in 

 Lancashire and Cheshire. I have known as many as 70 males 

 taken in one day with a single female by the process of 'calling.' 



In Mr. Gregson's collection is a splendid aberration of this 

 species, taken at Bolton ; it is a male, in which the whole of the 

 markings are so suffused with the dark ground colour that the 

 insect appears nearly black. 



Fam. LAS 10 CAM PI DM. 

 LASIOCAMPA, Schrank. 

 Lasiocampa potatoria, L. Abundant throughout the two counties. 

 In Mr. Gregson's rich collection is a peculiar variety of the 

 female, which has the wings coloured like the male, and the 

 thorax with a dense black tuft, which gives the individual a 

 strange appearance. It was captured in the vicinity of Liverpool. 

 Lasiocampa trifolii, W.V. Occurs on all the coast sandhills from 

 Blackpool and Lytham to Wallasey, but is not nearly so plentiful 

 as formerly. Within the last few years the species has been 

 nearly exterminated at Crosby owing to the cupidity of collectors 

 for exchange. 



Lasiocampa quercus, L. Abundant on the mosses, heaths, and coast 

 sandhills of both counties. I believe all our specimens belong 

 to the race callunce, but Mr. Joseph Chappell, after referring to 

 callunce as common on all the mosses, records quercus as not 

 uncommon at Bowdon (Cheshire) and Moss-side, near Man- 

 chester. 



Lasiocampa rubi, L. Abundant on heaths, mosses, sandhills, and 

 waste lands. 



CLISIOCAMPA, Steph. 

 Clisiocampa cratsegi, L. Scarce. The only records of its occurrence 

 that I possess are: — 



Silverdale, rare (J. CM.); 'Reared from larvae found at Saighton 

 by Miss H. Smith, Hampton Lodge, Chester' (A.O.W.). 

 Stainton refers (Manual, p. 155) to its occurrence in the Preston 

 district. 



Clisiocampa populi, L. Generally distributed, but nowhere common. 



Lane. — Bolton (W.J.); sparingly around Liverpool (F.N.P.); 

 throughout the Manchester district, but not common (J.C); 

 Preston (J.B.H.); Warrington (N.C.); West Derby (C.S.G.). 



Chesh. — Bidston and Birkenhead (J.F.B.) ; Bidston Light- 

 house (C.S.G.) ; East Cheshire (A.O.W.). 



Naturalist, 



