The Entomologist (Volume 5)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cosely, to be all that were possessed by the spider.?(Rev.) O. Pickard-Cambridge; Bloxicorth, Dorset, December 8. Hyberual specimen of Phlogophora meticulosa.?Yesterday I picked up a specimen of Phlogophora meticulosa: it was apparently only just out of pupa, as the wings were quite limp. They are not unfrequently met with in November, but I do not remember having a fresh specimen so late as the 12th of December.?G. T. Porritt; Clare Hill, Huddersfield, December 13, 1869. Food-plant of Abia sericea.?The larvae of Abia sericea were feeding on the devil's-bit scabious (Scabiosa succisa): they had a very peculiar way of rolling in a ring, and throwing out a kind of dew all over their bodies, just like that observable on an ice-plant, when I touched them with my hands; but 1 did not notice the dew on them when I touched them with the lid of a pill-box that I was collecting them in.? G. Lock; Turkish Baths, Newport, Monmouthshire, Nov. 16. ])cisycampa rubiginea in Monmouthshire.?On the 16th of November 1 took one specimen of Dasycampa rubiginea on ivy blossoms: it was in splendid condition. 1 cannot hear of anyone ever taking any in this neighbourhood before.?Id. How Ihe Scorpion feeds.?A friend having kindly brought me a scorpion from the South of France, 1 have much pleasure in recording the manner of his feeding. His diet has been entirely confined to juvenile cockroaches: he has been kept in a bottle very loosely corked, and provided with a wet rag on which to repose at leisure or disport himself, exactly as he might prefer. When a young cockroach was dropped in, he became excited, but was far loo dignified lo pursue, whatever might be the state of his appetite. No sooner, however, did the cockroach recklessly venture within reach than the scorpion seized it with both...