The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (Volume 31)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... and numerous others, some haTing no doubt strayed from the adjoining woods. Also Lobophora viretata at a neighbouring gas lamp. Sugar tried one night attracted only Dipterygia scabriuscula (pinastrij and Hypenodes costastrigalis. The Nemoria mridata Tary from dull green to pale yellowish-brown, the range of Tariation being almost identical with that of Pseudoterpna prninata (cytiiaria) from the same locality, extreme forms of both species occurring there in June, 1893, a very dry season, the inference being that the pale forms are caused more by exposure to sunlight than by moisture. A few Micros were obtained, including Amblyptilia acanthodactyla, Crambus pinellus, Phycisfusca, Pempelia palumbella, Aphomia sociella, Harpipteryx xylostella, and Ergatis ericinella. Other Orders were equally abundant, the only notable captures being a? of jEschna jnncea, L., on August 14th, 1892, rather far south for it; a damaged specimen of the rare weevil, Cleonus nebalorus, found after one of the periodical fires which devastated the upper and drier parts of the Common; and a 3 of Mutilla europtBa. There are many similar Commons in the neighbourhood extending almost to the New Forest, and, in spite of golf, Bournemouth remains an excellent centre for entomological work.--Id.: April 5tt, 1895. Pieris Daplidice in Staffordshire.--I have recently acquired the remnants of a collection of insects made by Mr. S. Bradbury, of Abbotts Bromley, and in it I discovered, bodiless and skewered with an ordinary pin, a specimen of Pieris Daplidice labelled ainapis. I have no doubt that it was taken at Abbotts Bromley; he never went from home, and the specimen is certainly British; indeed the collector does not exist who would send out insects set like this one was, and if it had bee...