The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (Volume 25) (Paperback)

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: July, 1tSS.] 25 T. longicornis, Sebum.: a decidedly common species, though Walker says, " Rare. In Mr. Haliday's collection (I)." I do not at present recognise T. truncorum, Mg., and hortensis, Mg., but I think -I have the former, and, if so, it is a very handsome species. T. hortulana, Mg.: I believe this to be a good species, allied to, but much rarer than, the next, though also widely distributed; its wing pattern is not quite the same. T. varipennis, Mg.: common from Sussex to Tongue. T. nubeculosa, Mg.: if I possess this species at all, it is a single male from Dolgelly; and on the same day (June 13th, 1887) I took two males of another unrecorded British species, which seems to bo allied to T. pruinosa. T. esecisa, Schum.: I still think "Walker had the common T. seriptn before him when he deseribed his T. excisa; nevertheless, true T. excisa is British, as I caught a beautiful male at the Llanberis foot of Snowdon on June 8th, 1887. T. seripta, Mg.: one of our commonest species from the Isle of Wight to Sutherlandshire, or Newmarket to Dolgelly. T. melanoceras, Schum.: I possess one male from Inveran (July 17th, 1886), which may be this spceics. T. plvmbea, F.: the species which Walker evidently intended by this name oceurred in thousands near the half-way hut up Snowdon from Llanberis on June 8th, 1887. Whether it is the species Fabri- cius intended is open to very great doubt. T. pruinosa, W.: not at all uncommon; a peculiarly leaden hued insect. T. lutcipennit, Mg.: I once found the males tolerably common in a small spot in Wicken Fen, but I could not detect any of the long- bodied female, nor could I catch any males twenty yards away from the spot; another time the same thing happened to me at Barton, near here, and so up to the present I...