APPENDIX II 345 



DECEMBER 



Outdoor work is now at a minimum. The weather is too severe, 

 as a rule, to allow pupa digging to be carried on with either success 

 or comfort, but favourable opportunities should be seized for this 

 employment as well as for ova collecting. 



Now and again we may meet with P. Populi at rest by clay, or 

 fluttering round a light at night. Brumaia and Defoliaria may 

 also be seen, and the Early Moth (Rupicaprarid) may appear on 

 the wing before the new year ; but nothing is likely to be met with 

 beyond these save the hybernators, already named in other lists, 

 and some of the Tinea. 



It is a good plan to utilise your spare time during the dreary 

 months of winter by attending to your cabinet. Rearrange your 

 specimens where necepsary, and see that all are properly labelled ; 

 remove all greasy specimens, and deal with them as recommended 

 on page 127 ; also renew the supply of camphor or naphthaline in 

 your drawers and store boxes. Time may also be found for the 

 construction of apparatus that is likely to be required next season, 

 and for repairing any that has been damaged during the work of 

 the last. 



