162 THE entomologist's record. 



rest on beech — a young ash, thorn, nut-bush, in fact, anything 

 standing vertically in a beech wood will do for *S'. fagi. The ? s are 

 not so frequently found on young trees, but when they have flown 

 they seem also to prefer them. In many beech woods small trees are 

 not readily available and for this reason at Cuxton, Epping, &c., large 

 trees are perhaps the more frequently chosen. 



14. — Wherever one specimen of Stauropns fatji is found, others are 

 usually near ; the lethargic female appears to keep the males near her, 

 Holland notes five from one small tree and ten from a single clump 

 of young trees. 



15. — When eggs oi Staiiropun/at/i are wanted in confinement ; place 

 a 2 in a good-sized cardboard box, in which, as soon as it is dark, she 

 will fly about and deposit eggs here and there, several nights are 

 needed to complete the egg-laying, and the $ s do not always com- 

 mence egg-laying at once. 



16. — Larvffi of Porthi'sia chri/sorrhDca should be obtained in late 

 May and June. They have been extremely abundant on our south- 

 eastern coasts of late years — Deal, Folkestone, Hythe, Sheerness, &e. 



17. — In May Drepana cidtraria occurs commonly in the Monks- 

 wood section of Epping Forest, the males flitting about freely in the 

 sunshine, whilst at the end of May and early in June the imagines of ZA 

 binaria sometimes fly very freely in the glades near Fairmead, although 

 the species is well distributed throughout the whole of the Forest. 



18. — -The eggs of Drepana harpai/iila are laid in May on the edges 

 of the lime leaves (Tilia par ri folia) just at the bottom points of the 

 serrations. The larvae appear in about eleven days, refuse the leaves 

 of Tilia europaea, and seem to prefer somewhat dry leaves, being often 

 found at large on stunted hard leaves ; they feed quite exposed, and when 

 full-fed roll up a leaf funnel-shaped and pupate therein ; the pupa 

 is covered with a thick resinous powder, possibly to protect it from 

 damp during the winter when it is lying in its cocoon among the dead 

 leaves at the foot of the lime trees. 



19. — In searching for the catkin-like larva? of (ieoinetra papilion- 

 aria in May, remember that the small bushes that have only been cut 

 two or three years are generally the most productive, and that the 

 larvffi usually stand out rather near, if not quite at, the end of a twig. 



20. — The larvfE of Eiqjithecia siibciliata feed on maple bloom in 

 May ; they are best beaten, feed up rapidly, pupate in, or near, the 

 surface of the soil, or among the food-plant, and are very easy to 

 rear. 



21. — Female Xumeria pidceraria are sometimes to be taken in May 

 flying during the day'daie in bright, sunny weather along the hedgerows, 

 apparently seeking for sallow on Avhich to lay, as such J s lay almost 

 immediately if enclosed in a chip box covered with muslin. If missed 

 at the first stroke of the net they dive down into the herbage, but are 

 easily disturbed by the stick or captured by searching. This insect 

 is usually supposed to fly only at dusk. 



22. — Eggs of Cidaria sitff'iiviata are readily obtained in May, the 

 larvfe feed up rapidly on Galiitui )iiollii;/(), and pupate about July. 



23. — The small birch-trees in the localities for Diuiarjdia rerdcolora 

 should be searched in May for the larvae of this species ; although 

 smaller, thoy are more readily found when young, OAving to their 

 gregarious habits. When they are older they spread, and bear a close 



