Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society Volume 15 baixar o livro de graça

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. 1894 Excerpt: ...(xxix., 241), which deals specially with four of the species, the other British species being the subject of a paper by Mr. E R. Bankes, which will, I understand, be published shortly in the same magazine, and which I must not anticipate. (E.M.M., xxx., 80.) There is a somewhat rare plant, Suceda fruticosa, which, with its annual congener S. maritima, grows here and there in abundance along the Chesil Beach. For many years past it has been known that a small moth was attached to this plant, not only here, but also in Lancashire, Norfolk, and Essex, but it was formerly set down as one of the varieties of L. instabilella or one of the other species of Lita. I believe that I was the first to breed this moth in this county, having found the larva at Weymouth in May, 1885. Mr. Bankes was just a year later. I therefore undertook to describe it as a distinct species, which it has been generally admitted to be for some time past, and have done so in the beforementioned paper. The species of this group found on the Chesil Beach are sucedella, plantaginella, ocellatella, instabilella, salicomice, and the nearly allied obsoletella and atriplicella. The descriptions having been published, I will not repeat them here, but merely make a few remarks upon the habits and mode of life of some of these species. In the early part of April Suceda fruticosa, which is an evergreen perennial, shows no sign at all of larvae feeding upon it, whereas this is the time to find the larval of instabilella upon Atriplex portulacoides--another evergreen sea shrub of low growth, and one of the most easily recognised of the difficult Atriplex group. The larva mines a leaf of the Atriplex, completely eating out the fleshy inside in patches, making the leaf appear whitish green. It also spins ...