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was no room for the whole wiihout the extended wings overlappinfj. 

 By dint of caution I succeeded in boxing the lot one by one without 

 he aid of the net, they being very averse to leave such comfortable 

 (juarters. — T. J. Henderson, Glasgow, 



§Jractical hints. 



By C. FENN, Y.E.S. 



(a) June (nniddle). Larvae of S/>i7. aceriana may now be collected. 

 They feed in the terminal buds of poplars and ;Tspens. The presence 

 of the larva is indicated by a tube of frass projecting from the end. 

 Insert the cut twigs in damp sand. 



[l)) June (middle) to July (middle). T. amataria may now be taken 

 in abundance flying at dusk in weed\' lanes ; and after dark at rest on 

 the grasses and hedge plants. 



{€) June (on to end). Fhorodesma bajidaria flies high at sicnset in 

 oak woods ; prefers broad rides and woodsides. 



id) June (end). Tortrix brauderiana may be obtained freely, flying 

 high from sunset to dark over the tops of aspens in woods. 



(e) June (end). 1 arvse of C. chamowiUce are now nearly full fed on 

 Matricaria. Search for them in the morning sun on the plants. 



(/) June (middle to end). E galHcolana is now out, flying swiftly 

 over the tops of oak trees and bushes, from 2 till 7 p.m. 



[i\'^^.— The Practical Hints for July will be written by Mr. W. H. 

 Tugwell. — Ed.] 



fM^OCIETIES. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — May i^i/i, 1890, Mr. J. A. Clark, President, in the chair. Mr. Bel- 

 lamy exhibited specimens of D. pulchella, from India, the insects being 

 rather smaller and more heavily marked than the English form ; Mr. 

 Tutt a fine variety of S. c/athrata, from Winchester ; a melanic form of 

 C. inwianaia, from Warrington, and some large specimens of M. artemis ; 

 Mr. Clark dark specimens of X. poloyodon and H. micacca, also very 

 strongly-marked si^ecimens of A. lubricipeda., from Germany ; Mr. Simes 

 a variety of the larva of C. caja, the hairs at the side being black instead 

 of red, the larva thus being quite black ; Mr. Gurney larvte of P. 

 smara):^darin ; Mr. Milton series of Dytiscus marginalis and D. circutti- 

 iiexus. Mr, Clark, on behalf of Mr. Wilmot, of Hackney, exhibited an 

 albino specinien of a bird, supjiosed to be a thrush, but in the opinion 

 of the meeting it was a very fine variety of the redwing {Tardus iliacus, 



