3()4j [December, 



interstices only witJi a row of fine }3unctures in each. Legs ferruginous. Abdomen 

 and under-side punctured, the last ventral segment without any depression. 



Length, 4- mm., but varies somewhat. 



Closely allied to B. nitidulus, but differing from that species in 

 the following particulars : — colour different, head not so wide and 

 with longer neck, eyes smaller and less distinctly prominent, antennae 

 with longer 3rd joint and club more ovate, thorax not narrowed behind 

 and more strongly punctured, interstices of elytra less shiny, abdomen 

 without any impression on last ventral segment. 



i'ound under oak bark in Sherwood Forest in October, 1880, and 

 June, 1889 ; also in Bagot's Park, Staffordshire, in June, 1892. 

 November, 1892. 



PRACTICAL HINTS ON SUGARING. 

 BT W. HOLLAND. 



It may not be generally known that moths often come more 

 readily to sugar when it is applied to the twigs and branches of the 

 trees they feed upon, or twigs of something near their food-plant, than 

 they will to sugar placed on the trunks of trees. I have great success 

 in this way. In districts where there are few trees, collectors know 

 well how it pays to sugar flowers, bunches of grass, rushes, &c., but 

 in well wooded places little else is attempted but sugaring the trunks 

 of trees. Now, many species are very particular about the situation 

 and condition of the tree trunk which is sugared for them. Trunks 

 which are covered in by branches below are invariably neglected, those 

 which stand fairly well out being best, but they must not stand out 

 too boldly and bare or they offend in that way. I find in rows of 

 trees which I have sugared for years that those which stand fair and 

 clear, but just a little retiring, are the most favoured ones ; if the 

 trees are branched below, it is best to sugar the branches only. 

 Xanthia citrago, for instance, will hardly come at all to sugar put on 

 the trunk of the lime tree ; an occasional one only will be got in this 

 way, but by sugaring below the tips of the outermost branches all 

 round the tree I generally find about fifty on one tree, besides other 

 species. In the case of Xanthia aurago again, the best place to sugar 

 is along the outside of the beech wood beneath the ends of the over- 

 banging branches, or on the twigs of the hedge below them. I have 

 repeatedly taken about 100 in a night in this way, when trunks sugared 

 inside and outside the wood have not yielded one specimen. Other 

 things may be got in the same way by selecting the place according 

 to the species wanted. 



