THE NATURALISTS’ JOURNAL. 
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(or ought to) be satisfied with the result; they can be beaten over a newspaper ; 
all the Necrophori, Silphas, Ilisters, etc., may be obtained in this way.—A. 
Ford. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
June is the month for butterflies and it is impossible to find space for a list 
of all the species which are out now ; we are forced to content ourselves with 
mention of Melitcea Cinxia and Atkalia, Argynnis Euphrosyne, and Selene , 
the northern moor-loving Laidion variety of Ccenonympha Typhon or Davus 
as Stainton and Newman call it, Erebia epiphron , var. C'assiope, Lycoena 
minima or alsus and the Scotch Artaxerxes var. of L. agestis. Look out for 
Stanropus fagi on the trunks of beech trees, and for P. palpina on poplars, 
also for N. dromedarius on birch trees, whereon also may sometimes be touna 
the brownish-red N. camelina as well as on palings in the vicinity. Sugar for 
the brown, pink-spotted Thyatira batis, the brown banded Cymatopliora 
fluctuosa, the dull grey C. or , and the numerous other moths which may be 
attracted by the sweet mixture. Visit reed beds for Leucania obsoleta and 
straminea. Amongst the other moths occurring in June are Procris globularice 
which flies about the Sussex downs, Zygcena trifolii Deilephila euphorbice , 
D. elpenor, Sesia myopcejormis, Calimorpha dominula , the fern loving 
Euthemonia russula , Chelonia villica, Lasiocampa quercifolia , Angerona 
prunaria, Eurymene dolobraria, the whitish, grey sublunaria variety of Selenia 
lunaria, the blood vein moth (Bradypetes amatariaj, the peacock moth 
(. Macaria notata), the heather loving Scodonia belgiaria -, Scoria dealbata, 
Lobophora hexapierata Anticlea sinuata, Phibalapteryx vitalbata , Laphygma 
exigua, Acroitycta aceris, (to be looked for at rest on sycamore trunks) ail the 
wainscot moths [Leucania), except strigosa, Dianthecia ?iana (which we used to 
call conspersa) Hadena pisi Anarta myrtilia and Plusia pulchrina (which is 
called now V-aureum). 
Lawce for June. —On oak. C. diluta, A. aprilina, H. protea, C. sponsa. 
Oak and birch, E. tiliaria (brown, twig-like). E. erosaria (grey), E. a?igularia 
(grey, clouded with reddish-brown). Willow, C. nupta (hides by the day in 
the crevices of the bark, the best way to find it, is to draw the fingers down the 
crevice, when the soft larva may be readily felt). Sallow, V. polychloros (and 
elm), T. opima, B. notha. Honeysuckle, H. satura . Hawthorn, T. cratcegi), 
E. lanestris, B. neustria, D. cceruleocephala. Heather, F. atomaria. Low 
plants, X. flavago, A. tragopogonis. Broom and clover, T. gothica (also on 
lilac.) Mouse ear ( Cerastium arz/ense), H. arbuti, with many others. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The new edition of J. Hubner’s Exotic Butterflies which, W. F. Kirby F.E.S. 
of the entomological section of the British museum is editing will form when 
completed one of the most beautiful books upon the subject of foreign rhopal 
ocera. It will contain 664 hand coloured plates, each well coloured and 
engraved. The first three parts have already appeared and contain thirty 
plates. 
In the Entomologists ' 1 Record for May 15, Mr. Tutt continues his life histoiy 
of a lepidopterous insect, giving an exhaustive account of the ovum or egg, Mr. 
Prout endeavours to solve the difficulties surrounding Coremia ferrugaria 
Haw and C. Unidentaria, Haw. Mr. Tutt, again, gives us some most interest¬ 
ing notes on the past of English lepidopterology from which we observe that 
gamma was reckoned a rare moth about a century ago as likewise was defoliaria ! 
Air. Hodges graphically describes a night mothing in the fens and has some¬ 
thing to say about the extinction of Lcelia ccenosa, and N. subrosea and the 
increasing scarcity of Cidaria sagittata and Porthesia chrysorrhcea. Finally 
Dr. Chapman continues his series of papers upon the larva of Arctia caja , 
beautifully illustrated with figures of varieties. We have ourselves been 
experimenting upon Caja larvae for years past and quite agree with the doctor 
