66 THE entomologist's record. 



advanced readers'' by a record of what he is pleased to call his "season's 

 work." 



As, however, for several years past you have been good enough to 

 find space for my annual record, I am tempted to try once again, in 

 the hopes that there are still, perhaps, some novices who may be 

 interested, and possibly some few scientists who may find a few grains 

 of wheat amidst my bushel of chaff. 



I commenced the year with a fair quantity of pupre from the pre- 

 ceding summer, and I see from my diary that my first active work was 

 a trip to the Isle of Portland towards the end of February, but the 

 wind blew, and the rain fell in torrents, so that searching for larvae 

 was anything but pleasant. However, I made a fair bag, which 

 resulted in due course, in a number of Xoctna .vanthoyrapha, a few 

 very pretty Heliopliobus hispidns, and some Epunda lichenea, with one 

 Trlphaena sithsequa. 



Tephrosia histoitata began to emerge on February 29th, and Xy^nia 

 lapponaria (1906 larva?) on March 15th. On March 24th I got a 

 pairing of these latter, 24 hours after the emergence of the 3 , and just 

 about dusk in the evening. 



At the end of March, a friend and myself spent a couple of days on 

 the Sussex downs looking for larvte of .Eyeria spht'i/ifoniiis and our bag 

 was about three dozen, but most of them proved to be "stung,'' so that 

 the result was poor. During April I tried for ^E. spheiiiforniis and :E. 

 form ici form ix near here, getting some half-dozen of the former, but 

 only one or two of the latter, which is one of the most difficult larvte, 

 in my estimation, to find. The osiers hereabouts are riddled by a 

 beetle, the frass of which persists in catching the eye, while the clear- 

 wing seems to make little or no visible frass. LarviB of .E'jffia 

 cidiciformis and ^E. cynipiformis were common, and easy to find. 



EupitJietia abbreviata began to emerge soon after the middle of the 

 month, as well as E. pumilata, while the first E. coronata appeared on 

 the 30th. Early in May I obtained a fair number of larvte of Cirr- 

 hofdia xerainpelina, and captured a few Aleucis pictaria and Antidea 

 derivata. On May 14th I found larvse of Eupithecia debiliata common 

 on bilberry in Kent, with many larvfe of Hypsipetes elntata and Boarmia 

 rcpandata. The undergrowth of some of the woods here is largely 

 composed of lime, and by beating this I found quantities of larvas of 

 Tiliacea citrayo, with far less trouble than searching large trees. 



Towards the end of the month (as already noticed in the Ent. Llec.) 

 I found larvae of (Jltria cerayo and Mellinia yilrayo feeding in poplar 

 catkins. At this time Clostera reclusa, LobopJiora he.rapterata, and 

 Eupithecia ndyata were emerging. I beat some very small larvre from 

 fiowers of Anthriscus sylvt'stris, which eventually proved to be those of 

 Amphipyra trayopoyonis, and made a trip into Norfolk, which proved 

 very successful, in search of larvae of EnjtitJiecia mbciliata. Although 

 we have quantities of flowering maples here, and the insect is said to 

 occur wherever the maple is large enough to flower, I have never 



• We sincerely hope that our contributors do not think this. Our trouble is 

 to get notes of the character that Mr. Reid and a few other of our contributors 

 regularly write for us, and we can assure such that, far from their notes wearying 

 us, we are fully alive to the fact that quite two-thirds of our readers still prefer 

 these notes to anything else published. The difficulty is to get such contributions. 

 —Ed. 



