120 
J. J. Reading's Catalogue of the 
This splendid insect is very local and rare, occurring only within 
the range of our local Fauna, at Torquay. The Barnstaple locality, 
although cited advisedly, is not an authenticated habitat for E. Ver- 
sicolora, as no actual capture of that insect has hitherto been made. 
Mr. G. F. Matthews writes : — I have seen, what I believe was this 
insect, several times on the wing in a birchwood in the neighbourhood 
of Barnstaple." 
Family— SA-TURNID^, Staint. 
Gen. SATURNXA, Schr. 
142. S. Pavonia-minor, Lin. 
Phalcena Pavonia-minor, Lin. Sys. Nat. ii. 810. — Wood. Ind. Ent. t. 6, 
fig. 39.— West. & Hum. Brit. Moth. i. 51, pi. 10, fig. 1-2.— Staint. Man. 
i. 160. 
Common but local. 
App. — May. 
Loc. — Bovisand ; Whitsand Cliffs ; Roborough Down ; Bickleigh 
Down ; Kingston Down ; — Torquay, Dr. B. ; Haldon, E. P. ; 
Coddon Hill, Barnstaple, G. F. M. 
This fine and handsome bombyx is found in Devon and Cornwall 
chiefly on elevated heaths and downs ; the larvae feeding on the 
heather Calluna vulgaris; while in the vicinity of London and the 
Home " counties the larvss revels in osier-beds, feeding upon vari- 
ous varieties of Salix. 
Family— PLATYPTERIGID^, Steph. 
Gen. CZI.IX, Leach. 
143. C. spinula, ScUff, 
Geometra spinula, Schiff.-Mull. Wern. Verz. 64. 
Cilix compressa, Wood. Ind. Ent. t. 26, fig. 767. 
Cilix spinula, Staint. Man. i. 162. 
Not rare. 
App. — August. 
Loc. — Greenbank ; Townsend Hill ; Bickleigh Vale ; Ivybridge ; 
Cornwocd ; Kingsbridgc ; — Torquay, Dr. B. ; Exeter, E. P. ; Barn- 
staple, G, F. M. 
