Zoologist; A Monthly Journal of Natural History Volume 18 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... egg; however, the perfect insect did not show so much variation in the time of their appearing. Eupithecia expallidata bred from the Golden-rod, Sec. -- It may interest Mr. M'Lachlan to know that three years since I hred seven specimens of Eupithecia expallidata from mixed larvae beaten from Solidago virgaurea, Senecio Jacobtea and Achillaea millefolium. I have little doubt that the first-named flower is the ordinary ftiod-plant. Last autumn I again met with what I believe to be the larva, and took accurate descriptions, which, should my suspicion prove correct, I hope, ere long, to give the readers of the 'Zoologist.'-- H. Harpur Crewe; Wickham Market, Suffolk, March 31, 1860. Description of the Larva and Pupa of Sarrothripa Revayana.-- I have bred this from a dark green larva, with long very fine white hairs. It has but little or no resemblance to any Tortrix larva with which I am acquainted. The pupa is bright green, with a broad black line down the centre of the back; it spun a whiie silken cocoon between two leaves of oak upon which the larva fed.-- William Machin; 35, William Street, Globe Fields, Mile End, March 2ti, 18ti0. A List of Micro-Lepidoptera, of which the Transformations are unknown. By Charles Miller, Esq. The following list I had prepared for my own use, but it having occurred to me that it might prove useful to my fellow entomologists in the coming campaign I am induced to publish it for their benefit, through the medium of the ' Zoologist.' It will be observed that beside those species of which the transformations are entirely unknown I have included those of which the habits are as yet imperfectly worked out, and also those which have been discovered in the larva state on the Continent, but not yet noticed in the...