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ThynielicKs (utaenn abound on the slopes at Swanaj^e — July 15th is a 

 good normal date. 



4. — The large Antliroceia jialustn's is to be found abundantly in 

 marshes throughout July (and early August^, the insect is much 

 confused with the early June-tiying J. trifolii. The cocoons are 

 usually spun well up on grass culms, i^c, like those of A. riUi>endulaf. 

 5. — Old currant bushes should be searched during the last week 

 of June and the fii'st fortnight in July for paired examples of Sesia 

 tijiuliformis ; they appear to be most readily found about 4 p.m. -6 p.m. 

 6. — The imagines of 'I'ror/iiliiit/i beinbecij'onni' may be found in July 

 in numbers, just emerged, from about 7 a.m. -8.30 a.m. on poplar- 

 trunks, the empty pupa-cases sticking out of the trunks beside them 

 (Porritt). In the south of England this species usually attects sallows 

 and willows. 



7. — In July the young larva of A/uitfla aci'ris sits curled in a note 

 of interrogation (?) form, beneath a leaf of sycamore or horse-chestnut, 

 and eats only the lower parenchyma between the veins in its first 

 stadium, and in the second it still leaves the veins and upper cuticle, 

 but by the time it gets into the third stadium it eats the whole 

 thickness of the leaf, and traces of its feeding are pretty evident. 



8. — The larva of ( 'raniopJuira lii/iistri always rests underneath a 

 leaf of the food-plant (usually ash), as soon as large enough along the 

 midrib, and when fullgrown along the central petiole ; the tapering to 

 either extremity assists it in eluding observation, and it is difficult to 

 see even when full-grown, whilst a half-grown one is very readily 

 overlooked even in captivity. 



9. — During the early part of July searching rushes and thistle- 

 heads in a damp wood near Church Stretton, resulted in a good series 

 of Xi/loji/iaxia scolijjiaciiia (Newnham). 



10. — In July the imagines of Photluih's cajitiiincnUi are abundant 

 everywhere on the coast of county Galway, flying about in the daytime 

 in hundreds, and much more strongly marked and marbled than 

 English specimens (Marker). 



11. — The imagines of I'hothcdcs captiuncida Sixe best taken from the 

 middle to the end of July. They fly (near Hartlepool) in short low 

 flights over grassy places near the sea ; for five minutes or so many 

 specimens will be seen, then, possibly owing to a slight change in the 

 temperature, none will be seen for perhaps half an hour, then the flight 

 will be repeated, ike. (Maddison). 



12. — Near Cambridge, in 1892, Apauu-n (ipJddtirainina was on the 

 wing a long time ; the first examples were taken on July oth, and the 

 species was still in first rate condition from the 15th-26th, and then 

 others up to August 5th. The species is a genuine dusk flyer, about 

 half an hour being the time in which one can take them ; three or four 

 were taken by walking about with a light, but dusk is undoubtedly the 

 time. They fly quietly, look very light on the wing, settle on difl'erent 

 flowers, and are very quiet and easy to box (Farren). 



13. — In July, 1892, some 50 Aijrotis obxciiro (ran'da) were taken in 

 the neighboui'hood of Chinnor, only two, however, at sugar, the rest 

 being obtained by searching outhouses, &c. (Spiller). 



14. — Capsules of Hilene iiiaritima, collected in July on the western 

 coast of Scotland (Oban), gave a supply of larviie of Dianthoecia conspersa 

 the resulting imagines proving almost identical with the southern form. 



