62 THE LEPIDOPTERIST'S CALENDAR 



IMAGOS] MAY 



Many small moths (says Mr. C. G. BARRETT) may be blown (by the mouth) 

 into the net. If a steady wind is blowing this mode of capture is often very 

 productive ; if it is stormy or gusty, hardly a specimen can be obtained. 

 Many species which cannot be seen may be thus captured, especially from 

 trunks of trees which they so much resemble in colour as to be undistinguish- 

 able. This practice of blowing, however, tries the "wind," and only the 

 strong can keep up the exercise. 



Some of the species which rest on tree trunks, and which may be found 

 this month, require to be carefully sought for. Some notes on this subject 

 will be found \mder the February Imagos. The northern and eastern side 

 of tree trunks, in larch and beech woods, in most elevated districts, yield 

 T. crepuscularia, and sometimes T. consonaria, T. biundularia, and H. 

 abruptaria. T. consonaria when disturbed generally dives down into the 

 grass, from whence it sometimes requires care to extricate it without damage. 



The reader may be reminded that most of the Pyrales require to be beaten 

 out of the thick undergrowth in which they hide ; and that Tortrices generally 

 fly most at about a couple of hours before dusk, while many also fly in the 

 early sunshine. 



Now that the Noctuse are beginning to appear in some plenty, the reader 

 should not forget the desirability of resorting to "sugaring," which, from 

 this family's love of sweets, often proves a means of capturing large numbers. 

 Many of them also show a great liking for light, and this is indicated in the 

 lists where it has been strongly manifested. 



P. Machaon fens, and marshes L. alsus, e hills, railway banks, 



L. sinapis woods; does not coast sand-hills, &c. 



travel quietly if boxed argiolus among holly, in 



P. brassicse gardens, &c. plantations, woods, and gardens, 



rapse gardens, &c. and at fl. 



napi gardens, &c. N. Lucina, e. ...woods, and banks 



Daplidice has been taken in near, where primrose abounds 



lucerne fields S. alveolus woods, and fields 



A. cardamines ...fields, &c. T. tages heaths, commons, 



A. Euphrosyne woods, &c. hills, &c. 



M. Artemis wet meadows; rests H. sylvanus hills, and woods 



among the herbage in dull S. ocellatus } rest on trees, 



weather ,, populi > palings, &c. ; 



Cinxia on the coast tilioe ) come to 1. 



S. -^Egeria woods, and lanes D. lineata at fl. 



Megaera lanes, banks, walls C. porcellus, e. may be found on 



C. Pamphilus ...fields, &c. patches of Galium verum, or on 



T. rubi . . near woods the ground near ; hovers over fl. 



P. Phlaeas fields, and lanes, at early dusk, and comes to 



coast sand-hills, &c. sugar 



L. agestis hilly fields M. stellatarum ...flies by day, and in 



Alexis, e. ...fields, and hills; rests the evening; hovers over fl. ; 



on grass, &c., at night often found flying over old walls 



,, Adonis chalk downs, and where Galium grows, and on 



limestone hills coast sand-hills 



