CURRENT NOTES. 91 



Mr. Stevens will, on June 15th, sell the well-known collection 

 of the late Mr. Trinuner Williams, a past president of the South 

 London Entomological Society, and one of the original captors of 

 Boletobia fuUijinaria . 



:p>ractical hints. 



Field Work for June. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



1. — In June the terminal shoots of furze which have turned brown 

 should be collected for larvae of Anarsia sjxirtiella. 



2. — In the middle of June the larva of ElacJtista trapeziella mines 

 the leaves of Luzula pihmi. 



3. — About the middle of June the larva of Gelcclna alhipalpdla 

 feeds on (renkta anyliva, the larva drawing several leaves together 

 round the stem, and then eats them half through, thus discolouring 

 them, and forming conspicuous clusters of yellowish-white leaves. 



4. — The last fortnight in June, and the first week in July, will 

 usually give larvae of Asphalia ridena if oak trees be carefully beaten or 

 searched, the larva generally fastening two oak-leaves together. 



5. — At the end of June the larv^t of Lacerna .subhistrii/dla may be ob- 

 tained on Epihibiuiit )ii(»Uanmn. They live within the pods, on the 

 seeds. The infested pods are usually thickened and shortened, some- 

 times slightly distorted, 



6. — In the last fortnight of Jime the larvae of Depn'^tmrla alhi- 

 pwtctiila &nd D. choerojilii/lUila should be obtained on C/toerophyllum 

 tmiiuli'iitum. 



7. — Towards the end of June the ash trees in the neighbourhood of 

 Mickleham and Box Hill give larvte of Zelleria liepaiiella. Sometimes 

 the close white cocoons are found on the leaves during July. 



8. — The last week of June and first week of July is the time to 

 find the larva of Eiicliroinia purpurana. It lives underground in a silken 

 tube, and gnaws the roots of SoncJtus anrnsis and Tara.cacuin officinale 

 externally. 



9. — Imagines of Hj/j>pa rertilinca and T'lmia iuternM/ationls are to be 

 captured when resting on stumps and stones, in dull weather, in June 

 and early July. 



10. — Moths may not only be found upon or below the sugar, but a 

 foot or two above, or on the other side of the tree, or hanging on the 

 twigs nearest to the sugar, 



11. — Imagines of A. ripac have been found in abundance under 

 pieces of wood lying on the sand in June. 



12. — Acidulia contiyuaria is so far a rare insect that it would pay 

 some good collectors to spend a July holiday at Bettws-y-coed or 

 Llanfairfechan, for a supply. The dark form is the commoner at the 

 first named locality, the pale one at the latter. 



13. — The only common British butterfiy whose hybernating stage is 

 actually in doubt is T/iijnuiicKs tkawnas. Will those collectors who 

 get the insect enclose a female, on a grass-plant, in a glass jar, and 

 place her in the sun for eggs ? If the latter hatch in autumn, it will 

 confirm Buckler's observations, and contradict Hawes' statement. 



