PRACTICAL HINTS for the FIELD LEPIDOPTERIST 



Parts I and II. 



Price Six Shillings net (each part). 



(Ixx^e>:'leEi,'wecl. fox* Collector's o^sirx*. xnotes.) 



This book, issued in 2 parts, to be purchased separately, is one of the most useful 

 practical aids ever offered to the field lepidopterist. In both Part I and Part II the closely 

 printed pages are interleaved, the two Parts being quite independent of each other, with no 

 overlapping and the work is entirely different from any of the elementary helps previously 

 published as aids to the field-worker, and which contain little that the field-worker has not 

 himself learned during the first year of his own observation and experience. This is 

 intended primarily to save the field-lepidopterist — beginner and old hand — time, trouble 

 and expense in prosecuting his work. Altogether some 2,800 "Practical hints" are 

 included, telling the lepidopterist how, when, and where, to work for the more desirable 

 species. No lepidopterist — unless he has learned everything — can afford to be without a 

 copy of this most useful book. The older collectors will not only find many hints that they 

 do not know, but they w^ill also find many facts that they may wish to remember presented 

 in a compact form. To the younger collector it offers a mass of information that he could 

 not hope to accumulate by himself in very many years of field work, whilst to all it must 

 remain one of the most necesstuy books ever published for the use of field lepidopterists. 

 The contents of each Part are divided into the following chapters : — (1) January, February 

 and early March ; (2) Later March and April ; (3) May ; (4) June; (.5) July; (6) August; 

 (7) September ; (8) October ; (9) November and December. Each chapter opens with a 

 general review of the field work that can be done in the period indicated, and wliilst these 

 opening parts of the chapters in Part I are particularly devoted to localities and modes of 

 capture, those of Part II deal more particularly with the treatment of the early stages and 

 the various modes of rearing and keeping larvae and pupsB in confinement. This part of the 

 chapter is followed by a classified list of the Hints available for the period, and, now that 

 the whole of the material is grouped, it offers a great mass of exact, useful and reliable 

 information, bearing on the work of tlie lepidopterist in the field, telling him exactly what 

 to do and how to do it in the fewest possible words, and in the least possible space. Such 

 information could only be gathered by the individual worker as the result of many years' 

 observation and by reference to many books in which the facts are buried amongst a mass of 

 other entomological detail. Lepidopterists, experienced and inexperienced, will find in this 

 book much information that will suggest quite new lines of work in their collecting, and 

 enable them to find, in close proximity to their homes, rare and local species that they 

 have never suspected to be in their vicinity, and the saving of time and trouble will thus 

 be enormous. 



The published records of many of our most observant field lepidopterists have been 

 largely drawn upon in the cojnpilation of this work. Among many others whose work has 

 been laid under contribution are — Messrs. Adkin, Alderson, Arbuthnott, Ash, Atmore, 

 Bacot, Bankes, C. G. Barrett, Battley, Bayne, Birchall, Bignell, Bower, Bowles, E.W. 

 Brown, Buckler, Burrows, Bush, Butler, Butterfield, Carlier. Capper, Carr, Carrington, 

 Chapman, Christy, Clarke, Clutten, Corbett, Coverdale, Harpur-Crewe, Dollman, Dadd, 

 Edclsten, Edleston, F. H. Day, G. 0. Day, Durrant, Edgell, Elisha, Farren, Fenn, Finlay, 

 \V. H. B. Fletcher, Fox, Eraser, J. E. Gardner, Greene, Gregson, Griffiths, Haggart, Hall, 

 Hamm, Harrison, Harding, Hellins, G. M. A. Hewett, W. Hewett, Hodges, Hodgkinson, 

 Holland, Home, James, Jiiger, Kane, King, Lockyer, Mc.\rthur, Maehin, Maddison, 

 Mason, Merrifield, Merrin, Miller, Moberly, Montgomery, Morres, Moss, Newman, Newn- 

 ham, Norgate, Norman, Porritt, Prout, Prideaux, liansom, Eaynor, P. C. Eeid, W. Reid, 

 Bichardson, Riding, Robsou, Robertson, Robinson, Russell, Shaw, Sheldon, Bernard- 

 Smith, South, Stainton, Stott, Talbot, Thornewill, Thornhill, Threlfall, Thurnall, Todd, 

 Tnnaley, Tugwell, Turner, S. Walker, Warren, Whittle, Wilkinson, Williams, Woodforde, 

 Wratislaw, Wylie, Lord Walsingham, &c. 



The book has been interleaved, so that collectors can add therein their own notes, 

 dates, &c. Reference has been made easy, the notes for each month being classed under 

 the superfamily heads to which they belong, e.f]., Tineina (unclassified), Tineides, 

 Adelides, Plutellides, Elachistides, Gracillariides, Argyresthides, Coleophorides, Litho- 

 colletides, Nepticulides, Tortricides, Pyraloides, Crambides, Pyralides, Drepanulides, 

 Cymatophorides, Brephides, Geometrides, Pterophorides, Sesiides, Zeuzerides, Cochlidides, 

 Psychides, Anthrocerides, Lachneides, Sphingides, Deltoides, Lymantriides, Nyeteolides, 

 Notodontides, Noctuides, Arctiides, Papilionides, &c. These will give an idea of the range 

 covered by the notes. 



Dkar Sir, — 



Please forward me copies of Parts of Fractiral Hiiitu for the Field. 



hein<U>pteri»t, for whica I enclose Postal Order value s. • 



Name 



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Mr. H. E. PAra:. " Bortrose," Gellatly Road, Hatchnm. 



