The Entomologist's record and journal of variation . as the principal, if not only, foodplant of all Clytie species isTamarix. A desperate young larva, I suppose, unable to find thefoliage of this, in Britain, usually coastal shmb, might be forcedto feed on a herbaceous substitute, even horse-radish (as some lowplants in France have also been mentioned); and that might accountfor its green colour, which is more usually in this genus, only the*Wychwood, High Road, Cookham Berks., SL6 9JF. 74 ENTOMOLOGISTS RECORD, VOL. 97 colour of the younger larva, still spending the day-time high up
The Entomologist's record and journal of variation . as the principal, if not only, foodplant of all Clytie species isTamarix. A desperate young larva, I suppose, unable to find thefoliage of this, in Britain, usually coastal shmb, might be forcedto feed on a herbaceous substitute, even horse-radish (as some lowplants in France have also been mentioned); and that might accountfor its green colour, which is more usually in this genus, only the*Wychwood, High Road, Cookham Berks., SL6 9JF. 74 ENTOMOLOGISTS RECORD, VOL. 97 colour of the younger larva, still spending the day-time high up onthe green twigs of tamarisk; in later instars these larvae are brownand rest by day low down on the woody stems of the shrub, or,preferably, under loose bark on the tree-trunk, which I found theusual place selected for pupation by C. sancta on the sizeable tama-risk trees of the Lebanon coastal littoral. I never found these pupaewrinkled as described by the finders, but typically Catocaline,and glossy, except for a purplish bloom in some
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