66 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
XXvii., p. 280), as it tends to bear out my suggestion (Hint. Record, vol. 
xxv., p. 282) that the comparatively few individuals of a species one 
finds resting by day on tree-trunks and fences, as compared with the 
hundreds one often sees after dark by the aid of a lamp, at sugar, 
flowers, honeydew, etc., are really the exceptions, and that those places 
are not the general resting-places of the species. I have no experience 
of C. boreata, but the habit of C. brumata, which I have observed in the 
New Forest, will probably offer a solution of the conundrum propounded 
by Mr. Page. 
While sugaring in the New Forest in late autumn, I have on more 
than one occasion been struck by the hundreds of C. brumata walking 
up the tree-trunks, whether sugared or not. Once I visited the spot 
next day to photograph a specimen, but was surprised at not being able 
to find a single imago at rest. 
On the following evening I kept watch and found that they crawled 
up from the low herbage, under which they no doubt hide, and I am 
convinced that this and similar places are the natural resting-place of 
a number of species. Of course I know they ought not to do this, as 
they are so “‘ protectively ’ coloured and marked to resemble the bark 
and fences on which we occasionally find odd specimens. 
On another occasion, in mid-November with a heavy frost on the 
ground, I was sugaring in the New Forest with Mr. Tonge. We 
accidentally came across a male specimen of Himera pennaria hanging 
from a bracken stem, and shortly after a female, and as sugar was a 
failure and we both wanted a series of females, we started searching. 
As the bracken harvest had been gathered it was fairly easy work. We 
were soon busily boxine ¢ and ? H. pennaria, Hibernia defoliaria, 
H, aurantiaria. 
Notwithstanding the frost the first and last species were there 
literally in hundreds, and this was one of those occasions when an 
interesting series of varieties could be obtained. We visited the spot 
the next day, but not a single specimen of either species was to be 
found at rest. I have had a good many years’ experience of autumn 
work in the New Forest, and I only remember two occasions when H. 
pennaria have been found at rest in the daytime—one ¢ found by Mr. 
Tonge and one g by myself, and both of which I photographed. Mr. 
Tonge’s specimen, however, bore evidence of having been disturbed, as 
the antennz were out, and it had no doubt been kicked up from the 
undergrowth. From observations in later years I should say that 
below the low herbage is their natural resting-place. 
Hmaturya atomaria certainly rest under the heather or grass. Some 
specimens can be found at rest on top of the heather after dark on a 
favourable night, but if they are disturbed, while it is still light, they 
slip down through the heather and lie on their backs. I have never 
yet come across J’aentocampa munda at rest, so when in the New Forest 
last spring I pillboxed a specimen at sallow and kept it until the next 
day in order to get it to pose on a tree-trunk for a photograph. I 
quite failed, however, to get it to do so, as each time | put it on the 
trunk it flew to the ground and wormed its way under pine needles, 
leaves, twigs, etc., until it was quite out of sight. Scopelosoma satel- 
litia does the same thing, and I once found Z'aentocampa pulverulenta 
(cruda) at rest on the ground under dead leaves. 
Hay stacks appear to be favourite hiding places for Noctuid moths. 
