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21. — In May the imagines of Coccyx splendid ulana dance round the 

 extremities of the branches of oak-trees in the morning and afternoon 

 sun, often in large numbers. 



22. — In April and May when the buds of various pines start 

 growing, the larva of Retinia bunliana bores actively, mounting upwards 

 with the shoot and pupating near the top (Tuely). 



23. — The larva? of Ili/jiercaUia christiernana were found on Poltjt/ala 

 vuhjaru between April 27th, and May 22nd, 1868, near Shoreham 

 (Walsingham). 



24. — In the beginning and middle of May larva? of Dcjin'ssaria 

 enicella are to be found on Enjuiiiuia, the dirty brown appearance on 

 the crown of the plant often making their whereabouts knoAvn, but 

 they are also often found in rolled-up leaves. Stout gloves and a good 

 knife are wanted. 



25. — In May (at Southend) a fine plant of Coniimi niandatiim gave 

 larvffi of l)cpn'Sf<ayia ahtfoeiiicn'dla, which resulted in a fine series of 

 imagines in July (Elisha). 



26. — The imagines of Bntalis incon(jruella are abundant in April 

 and early May on most of the chalk-hills of Kent and Surrey, fly freely 

 in sunshine. 



27. — In early May the mines of Bucculatrix maritima should be 

 collected in leaves of sea-aster. 



28. — Endromis versicolora is a very uncertain species in its appear- 

 ance, in some years being quite abundant in its favourite haunts, the 

 male flies swiftly in the morning sun, the females hanging from bare 

 birch twigs or resting on the heather in April. 



29. — The females of E. versicolora are rarely to be found in any 

 abundance until the males have been well out for a week or more 

 (Andrews). 



80. — The larvae of Clrrhocdia xcrampcUna are best obtained 

 during April and May, when climbing up the trunks of ash-trees just 

 at dusk. This is not only a less cumbersome method than beating, 

 but a much more successful one, and three dozen is not at all an 

 unusual number for a favourable evening's search ; they appear to be 

 most plentiful when the trees are in full bloom, and prefer the flowers 

 to the buds for food. The larvae that were collected gave 400 

 imagines and not a single ichneumon (Porter). 



N.B. — Hundreds of similar hints have been published in the 

 preceding volumes. 



:^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



LepidopteroloctICAl notes of the year 1900. — As I was abroad 

 all through 1899, I commenced the season of 1900 with no stock of 

 pupae or larvfe. I was also too busy during the early part of the year 

 to do any entomological work, and the first entry worth noticing from 

 my diary was the appearance at light of Aynphidasys strataria ^ on 

 March 22nd. On April 3rd I got (one) Taeniocampa stabilh at sugar, and 

 on April 8th several T. Htahilis, T. instabilis, T. cruda and Pnchnohia 

 rubricosa at sallow bloom. A visit to Kichmond Park on April 9th 

 yielded only one Larentia mxdtistri(jaria, and subsequent visits for the 

 same insect were fruitless. On April 19th I secured several Anticlea hadiata 

 and Aleucis pictaria along the blackthorn hedges, although they were 

 not yet in blossom. April 22nd saw me at St. Anne's-on-Sea, where I got 



