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2. — Cupido )iii)dma may often be found in hundreds in June sitting 

 in rows of lialf-a-dozen or more on the grass stems on the outskirts of 

 a wood (especially if on chalk) in the afternoon, they are also to be 

 found sitting in the liot sun in great numbers at puddles if there be 

 any in their immediate neighbourhood. 



3. — A 2 ( V)Z«(f,s cdum placed under a bell glass with a sod of white 

 clover will lay plenty of eggs on the upper surface of the leaves ; the 

 eggs of a batch often hatch irregularly even when the whole is deposited 

 within a few hours. 



4. — The larva? of Z('j>h>/nii< hrtulac always sit on the underside of 

 a leaf of sloe along the midrib, and are most difficult to see. I have 

 never seen one move in the daytime in nature (Turner). 



6. — The larv» of Ooneptorii.v rhamni are sometimes very abundant 

 from the beginning to the end of June on Rhaiinius fram/ula. They 

 should be searched for early as most of the larvae appear to wander 

 away to pupate. 



6. — The larva? of Apamea ophiofirauDim in confinement feed up 

 readily in short stalks or pieces of the stem of their food-plant, and 

 will pupate therein, emerging well at the end of June, if the pieces be 

 not allowed to get too dry. We have kept them on a damp piece of 

 blotting-paper in a tin box with satisfactory results. 



7. — The imagines of Mowa orio)i come to sugar during the first 

 fortnight of June from about 9 p.m. -9. 20 p.m., and settle with wings 

 closed at the top of a sugar patch, looking remarkably like a piece of 

 the green lichen that covers the tree. 



8. — In June in some years the larvas of Asphalia ridens are in great 

 numbers on oaks all over the New Forest. Sleeving is perhaps the 

 best way of rearing them, and if moss be placed in the sleeve they 

 will spin up in it without the slightest trouble. The pupfe should 

 never be removed from the cocoons, and it must not be forgotten that 

 a large number of pupte usually go over two or three winters. 



9. — The first week in June is the time for Cloantlia perspicillaris, 

 one of our rarest Noctuid moths (see Ent. Uec, iii., pp. 159-160). 



10.— The larviP of Taoiiocampa )itiniom prefer the large juicy oak- 

 galls to oak leaves. They grow to a large size when fed upon this food, 

 and as the galls keep juicy longer than the leaves I find them very 

 useful in satisfying the voracious appetites of the larvtB (Broughton). 



11.— The first week in June is the best time to beat the larvtB of 

 L'oiimiapaleacca [falvano) ; they are in great abundance on oak and birch 

 in some seasons in Sherwood Forest. 



12. — The imagines of Hecatera serena are to be searched for in June 

 on palings, tree-trunks, Sec. ; they also come to sugar and tiowers at 

 dusk, and are occasionally abundant at light. 



18. — In June the oak-trees in the Monkswood section of Kpping 

 h'orest should be beaten for larva- of tlijlojilnla hicolnrana, they may 

 often be found crawling over the oak-trunks when nearly full-fed. 

 Also common in some years in the New Forest. 



14. — The full-fed larvje of Lnicoma salin's always spin up in the 

 leaves of the trees on which they have fed up, not on the trunk or on 

 the ground except in very exceptional cases. 



15. — The best way to obtain .SV.s/o sp/u'tiifoniiis is to get on the 

 ground between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. and search the alder stems carefully, 

 when you will find the pupa? protruding ready for emergence or the 



