The Entomologist V2 1864-1865

"^H^ ^ '> THE ENTOMOLOGIST: CONDUCTED BV EDWARD NEWMAN VOLUME II ZZ3HS\ LONDON EDWARD NEWMAN, 9, DEVONSHIRE STREET, BISHOPSGATE 1864—5 ; The helpless, crawling From the first period of his Clothed caterpillar trace reptile race dishonour, on the leafy spray Unseen he wears his silent hours away ; Till, satiate grown of all that life supplies, Self taught, the voluntary martyr dies Deep under earth his darkling course he hends, And to the tomb a willing guest descends There, long secluded in his lonely cell, Forgets the sun, and bids the world farewell in O'er the wide wastes the wintry tempests reign, driving snows usurp the frozen plain : In vain the tempest beats, the whirlwind blows ; No storms can violate his grave's repose And But when revolving months have won their way When smile the woods, and when the zephyrs play, When laughs the vivid world in summer's bloom, He bursts, and flies triumphant from the tomb ; And while his new-born beauties he displays With conscious joy his altered form surveys Mark, while he moves amid the sunny beam O'er his soft wings the varying lustres gleam Launched into air, on purple plumes he soars, Gay Nature's face with wanton glance explores ; Proud of his varying beauties, wings his way And spoils the fairest flowers, himself more fair than they Anon — — -^4 PREFACE The 'Entomologist' was projected and commenced in October, 1840, the first number being published on the 1st The First Volume, consisting of of November of that year twenty-six sixpenny numbers, was completed on the 1st of December, 1842, with the following announcement: "The 'Entomologist' under its present title will now cease, but the spirit of the work, more particularly as regards those brief but highly interesting communications which my correspondeuts have from time to time contributed to the chapter intituled ' Varieties,' will be continued in the pages " of the ' Zoologist.' This announcement was literally and effectively carried medium through which entomologists corresponded until April, 1856, when Mr Stainton commenced the 'Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' and thus divided the entomological public The intelligencer' came to a close in 1861, Mr Stainton writing out, the 'Zoologist' being the only ' thus in explanation " Entomology in England is passing through a phase of depression ; we doubt much if we could now make out a list of 500 English entomologists to what extent this may have arisen from the Volunteer movement, the deleterious effects of which have been so great, it is impossible to say ; but this is evident, that, as action and reaction are equal and opposite, and as a few years back Entomology in England was unnaturally buoyant, so now it is depressed in a corresponding degree." My entomological correspondents seemed to think differently ; for not only during the existence of the ' Intelligencer' was I repeatedly pressed to undertake a journal devoted to the Science, but in the interval between the demise of the 'Intelligencer' and the birth of the short-lived 'Weekly Entomologist' I had no less than ninety-seven pressing solicitations to commence an entomological perio: : dical Preface vi After wailing a while to ascertain whether anyone would venture on ihe vacated territory, and painfully aware of the overcrowded state of the ' Zoologist,' leading to the postponement, and sometimes to the rejection, of papers of great interest, which I should have been only too glad to publish, EntoI yielded to pressure, and determined to revive the ' mologist.' Like Rip van Winkle, it awoke after a twenty years' slumrubbed its eyes, and stepped forth amongst its living namesakes with all the formality of its pristine appearance A few months have altered this, and the 'Entomologist' of '65, although commenced with due solemnity, is as different from the 'Entomologist' of '42 as good sound Saxon is from the canine Latin in which formerly had the misfortune to rejoice It became oVjvious that I had mistaken my calling I had no skill in that very peculiar language which, like the Rev P^dward Lving's, owes its })opularity to its obscurity No sooner was the changed character of the Entomologist' apparent than entomologists came fluttering round me tliey could not tail to be struck with like moths to sugar the change they had effected, and with the altered tone of a periodical which, on awaking, threatened such rigid formality, and which has in a few short months become the most freeand-easy of all scientific journals Whoever wants Volume I will, I fear, want in vain it reposes in peace on the shelves of the British Museum, the Universities, and the learned societies, but has long since disappeared from the bookseller's counter The inconvenience of the late appearance of this second volume is, however, more than counterbalanced by the non-necessity for a new name Purchaseis need not be told that each volume is complete in itself, and has no necessary connexion with the ber, ' : ; other, EDWARD NEWMAN B CONTENTS ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Andrews, Rev Percy, M.A., 175, 296 Argent, Wm,, 177 Armistead, Wilson, 253 Barrett, C G., 228 Battersby, W G., 251 Bell, J W B., 340 BiDGOOD, Wm., 341 BiGNELL, G C, 293, 294, 295, 315 BiRCHALL, EnwiN, 97, 133, 152, 255, 256, 329, 336 BiRCHALL, Henry, 163 Blackmore, Tkovey, 70 BoNNOR, C M., 287, 295 Bond, Frederick, 70 Browne, Rev Walter E., 324 Brunton, Thomas, 251 Borney, Rev Henry, M.A., 253 Button, David T., 290 Clifford, J R S., 100, 132, 133, 159, 160, 226, 268, 288, 289, 298, 329, 344 Clogg, Stephen, 338, 341 Cornish, Thomas, 98 Coultas, Harj.and, 251 Crotch, G R., 167, 178, 179, 181, 189,209,210,213, 216, 225, 259, 261, 268,302,372 Crotch, W D., Ill, CuRZON, Edwin, 325 176, 179 Davis, S A.,jun., 306, 312 Dell, J S., 85, 293, 305, 315, 343 Donaldson, Andrew, 134 DouBLEDAY, Henry, 251,294,305, 327 Drewitt, R D., 343 DuMSDAY, Albert, 102 Dutton, John, 340, 341 Edleston, R is., 150 Ellison, Miss Martha, 324 FiRBY, Edward, 287 Fisher, Marshall, 40 French, David John, 328 Gagliardi, Rev P 192 J., Gascoyne, George, 69, 184 Gibson, 145 Gibson, William, 84, 86, 101, 227, 292, 299 Gilbert, James, 68 , Greene, Rev J., 118, M.A., 116, 158, 190,325,-344 Gregson, Wm., 287, 313 GuNN,T E., 324 Hadfield, Capt Henry, 147, 339 Hammond, W O., 94 Harding, H J„ 193, 194, 319 Hayward, W., 292, 296, 297, 313 Healy, Charles, 126, 129 Holland, B., 311 Houton, Rev E., 98, 287 Hutchinson, Mis E S., 317,329, 343 Jennings, Rev P H 254, 325 Kendrigk, B., 70 Last, Timothy, 296 Latham, A G., 318 Leach, Richard, H W., 192 Lewis, George, 134 LiGUTON, Rev bir C R., Bart., 133, 328 , Llewelyn, J T D., 147 Lowne, Benj., T., M.R.C.S.Eiigl., 275, 33 MacLean, a., M.D, 2S8 Mallock, Miss iMahgakki, 312 Mathew, Murray \V , 324 Mawson, George, 151, 152 Meruin, Joseph, 177, 325, 328 CONTENTS Vlll MoNCEEAFF, Henry, 86, 100, 144, 145, 177, 179, lyi, 294, 295, 297, Seaman, C E., 84, 98 Seymour, C, 99 300, 311 Smith, Frederick, 229, 234, 270, 301,302, 303,305 Smith, Stephen P., 342 Stevens, Samuel, F.L.S., 119 Stewart, Colonel, 102 Stockley, George, 208 Stone, S., F.S.A., 84, 98, 295, 318 Stubbs, Chakles E., 324 Tiltman, J H., 341 MuLLKR, Albert, 70, 252, 300 Neville, Wilson, 299 Newman, Edward Descriptions of larvae, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 19, 32, 32, 33, 34, 35, 43,44,45, 46, 47, 49, 50,51, 52,53,61, 73, 74, 77, 79, 81, 82, 83, 89, 90, 92, 113, 121, 125, 141, 156, 201, 202, 221, 223, 224 Life-histories, 123, 137, 139, 153, 154, 243, 244, 246, 249, 263, 264,265,280,285,291,314 Miscellaneous, 28, 67, 98, 140, 155, 161, 162, 208, 231, 233, 254, 290, 293, 314, 318, 328, 340 Newman, Heney, 297 NicKissoN, llev VV., M.A., 317 Norman, George, 327, 342, 345 Owen, Alkred, 340, 342 Peers, John, 38, 97, 135,250 54, 55, 62, 63, Porritt, G T., 288 PowEE, J Arthur, M.D.,F.R.G.S., 197,269,270,322,323 Pristo, J., 144, 148, 149, 305, 320 Eanson, John, 19, 146 Reeks, Henry, 68, 161, 174, 178 RowE, W J., 195 Teaele, Edwin, 102 Thoencroit, Thomas, 289 Todd, Rev E Hali.ett, 100, 133, 157,246,344 Tuely, N C, 42, 294, 295 Walker, Francis, F.L.S., 99,318, 320 Walton, J., 56 Watkins, W., 316 Weir, J Jenner, 132 West, William, h6, 345 Whitaker, J W.,341 White, Rev H J., 68 Whyatt, R., 69 Wilkinson, F., 342 Willis, James, 321 Winter, John N., 297 Winter, W., 172 Weatislaw, a H., 340 Weight, Alfred, 296 Weight, R W., 72 Young, Arthur, 230 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS Absidia pilosus, 171 Abundance of butterflies, 287 or rarity of species, 179 „ Acanlbolepis Kirbii, 333 inauiillatus, id „ tuberculatus, 332 „ Acari on the wings of Triphaeua prouuba, 100 Acheroutia Atropos, 133, 286,287; in Ireland, 251 life-history of, in Lancashire, 287 280, 286 larfte, id ; near Witney, 296 near Miuehead, id.; near Hull, near Devoupoit, id 296 at Ipswich, id barren females of, id near Porlsea, 297 at ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; CONTENTS Leominster, 297 barren females bred, 305, 325 at Portsdown, 311 at Lythara, 313; near Devonport, id.; near Woodbrid^'e, ; ; ; 324 ; Henley-on-Thames, at near Luion, 325 which makes it its id mode on the ; noise, id ; ; „ 343 rubricala at Brandon, 70 „ Acronycta Aceris, larva, 43, 102 Alni, 287 at Worcester, „ ; 316 Myricae in Ireland, 251 „ strigosa, larva, ]56 „ Agamogenesis, 28, 2.34 Agiophila sulphuralis, capture of, 205 Agvotis exclamationis, larva, 68 Akis acuminaia, 58 Amber and Anime, insects in, 22 Amphipyra pyramidea, larva, 52 Amphydasis betularia, 150 prodromaria, 338 lar„ ; Analytical Notices : — The Annual' mologist's for ' Ento- 1864, ; Natural History of the Tiueina,' vol viii., 15;' Naturalist,' 21,40, 96 Naturalist's Sci'ap-Book,' 21; 'Young England,' 21, 66, ' ; 143; 'Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,' 29 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' 38, 64, 94, 114, 130, 142 ; ' Catalogue of Coleopterous 96, ' ; Insects of the Canaries, in the Collection of the British Museum,' 57;' Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales,' vol i., 105; 'Canadian series, Anchoscelis pi^tacina, larva, 46 Ancislronycha abdominalis, 16S Augerona prunaria, larva, 10 Anime, insects in, 22 Anisoxya fuscula, 189 132 equestris, ; ; food-plant, 215 fasciatus, id sanguinolentus, id „ terminatus, id „ Anticlea badiata, larva, 13 derivala, larva, 19 „ rubidata, larva, 12 „ Aniispila Pieiffcrella, moulting, economy and pupation, 129 Treilscbkiella, moulting, ,, economy and pupation, 126 Ants, natural history of Australian, 275,331 British „ species Bourne- at mouih, 303 Apnlochrus fenioralis, 213 Apiarian intelligence, 254 Arge Galathea, life-history Aigynuis, of, 263 predilection of different species for diffi-rent kinds of forestry, 294 Aglaia, id „ ' Naturalist,' No 4, new Anarta Myrtilli, 268 autumnal brood, 293 306 Anihocomus mancuniaia, a new British va, 11 nigriuum, 271 „ Anthocharis Cardamines, larva, 73 at ; „ Anobium, a new, 270 in Eastbourne, 341 in Cornwall, id Acidalia incanata, larva, 344' species, IX Lathonia near Ramsgate, „ 132; at Braintree, 311 in Norfolk, 324 at Aldeburgh, 340 in the Isle of Wight, id at Dover, ; ; ; ; id Paphia, larva, 77 „ Argyresthia nitidella, larva, 63 Arlicboke-gall, 99 Aspilates cilraria, larva, 125, 145 Atmospheric changes, influence of upon insect life, 193 Atomaria ferrugiuea at Birdbrook, 322 Attains Cardiacae, 215 Australian anls, natural history of, 275, 331 Axinolarsus pulicarius, 214 „ ruficollis, id Baikie, Dr., death of, 174 Bees, early swarm ot, 56 Beetles, bait for, 134 Biston hirtarius, life-history Blown-o\cr theorv, 289 of, 285 ; CONTENTS Boarmia perfumaria, 246 life-history of, ; Boletobia fuliginaria atClapham, 70 Bombyx 137; Callmne life-history and B Queicus, of, differeii- tiation^of thetwo allied species, 140 neustiia, scarcity of, 160 ; (rlutinous secretion 177 „ larva, ; of female, id life-history ; of, near Wimbledon, 329 Quercus, life-history of, „ 139, 140 Rnbi, 144 how to rear „ the larvae, 192 Trilolii, life-history of, „ 291; at Morice Town, 315 265 ; ; Borliorophoia Saulcyi, a new British Brachelylrou, 208 Breedin