JANUARY. 57 



Coccinella 7-punctata, Seven-spotted \ TT , . T . 



T . .. , Under bark in winter; on 



.Lady bird. f , , . 



. ; _, , > plants in summer, devouring 



Coccmella 2-punctata, Two Spotted C 



i Aphides. 

 Lady-bird. 



Acheta domestica, House Cricket. 



Notonecta furcata, Furcate mark'd Boat-fly. > p ondg and ditcheg 



Notonecta glauca, Common Boat-fly. > 



Cheimatobia vulgaris, The Winter Moth. Hedges. 



Cheimatobia rupicapraria, Early Moth. Pales and houses. 



Peronea spadiceana, The Bay-shouldered Button. Woods. 



Most of the insects included in the list for this 

 month, may be found the greater part of the year. 

 They hibernate copiously beneath moss and the bark 

 of trees. Aquatic beetles, being less subject to at- 

 mospheric changes, may be observed and caught at 

 all seasons, but are more active during the summer 

 months, when their food (the small aquatic larvae) is 

 more abundant. Being amphibious, and well pro- 

 vided with wings, they can, when their store of food 

 is exhausted, fly from one pool to another; thus 

 avoiding death, either from starvation or the drying 

 up of the water in summer. Equipped with wings, 

 and having a voracious appetite, they tend mate- 

 rially to keep in check a myriad of noxious insects, 

 and to purify our ditches and stagnant pools, which 

 would otherwise become unfit for cattle. 



