188 THE BNTOMOLOaiSx's RECORD. 



insects actually emerged. Care shov;Id be taken to keep a virgin $ 

 for assembling, the virgin ? s do not call till nearly mid-day, and 

 pairs ill cop., are almost always taken in the afternoon, sometimes as 

 late as 5 p.m. (Hamm). 



16. — The brown ova of Trochiliiun hembcciforme are laid on the 

 underside of willow or sallow leaves in early June, generally near the 

 mid-rib, one to five eggs on a leaf. 



17. — The males of Adscita (lenjon fly in swarms among the long 

 grass in the morning sun, the females are usually difficult to obtain, 

 hiding low down on or near the ground ; later in the day they affect the 

 flowers of their district, resting helplessly thereon, and are easily boxed 

 without the need of iising a net. 



18. — The true Anthrocera trifoUi is well out in early June, in a 

 variety of situations — meadows, chalkhills, &c. ; the imagines are 

 rather small and frequently subject to modification in that the normal 

 red spots of the forewings and the hindwings, are of a yellow colour. 

 The cocoons are usually spun low down near the ground. 



19. — During the first week of June the imagines of Anthrocera 

 hippucrepidis (titepJtensi), intermediate in superficial appearance between 

 Anthrocera trifolii and A. Jilipendulae, may be found in meadows and 

 similar situations. 



20. — The ? s of Brephos partheniuH and B, notha lay freely in 

 confinement, and eggs are readily obtained ; the larvae feed up with- 

 out trouble, but unless some rotten wood, cork, or similar substance 

 be provided into which they can enter for pupation, the full-fed larvae 

 will perish miserably. 



21. — The larvae of Amphidanys strataria from the same brood will 

 feed up at very difierent rates under identical conditions, some being 

 quite full-fed by the beginning of June, others not till quite the end of 

 the month or even later. 



22. — The eggs of Geometra vernaria are laid in late June and early 

 July, one on the other in little steeples of about ten or a dozen, on the 

 stems of Clematis, each little batch looking like a leaf-petiole or tendril 

 shortly broken oft'. The larva hatches in late July, stretches straight 

 out from a leaf -stalk, and is easily beaten. 



23. — The larva? of Boarmia cinctaria will feed freely on sallow in 

 June as well as on the usually accredited food-plants — Erica tetralvr 

 and E. cinerea. 



24. — Whitethorn, blackthorn, and oak should be beaten in early June 

 for larvae of Heinithea tlujtuiaria which spin up among the dried twigs 

 of the food-plant, and produce such deeply-coloured imagines as are 

 rarely taken wild in the imaginal state. 



25. — The $ s of BvarDita co)t.sortaria will lay their eggs in June 

 in a chip box, hiding them under the films of wood ; one can easily 

 overlook the eggs, unless one looks carefully, when the green tint of the 

 eggs often shows plainly through the thin layer of wood above them. 



26.— On Midsummer day, 1892, I was able to secure some thirty 

 examples of Xemoria riridata, which were knocked out from the furze 

 in Guernsey, all in the finest possible condition (Hodges). 



27. — At the end of June and in early July, stand in the wider rides 

 of the southern woods to net the quickly flying zigzagging males of 

 Aiu/eruna prunaria ; they commence to fly at sunset and continue 

 flying till after dusk. The J s are to be beaten from the trees. 



