C"J?.RENT NOTES. 83 



2. — Anisopteryx aescularia is sometimes to be found in numbers by 

 searching tree-trunks in the late afternoon. It is often also abundant 

 on the framework of roadside lamps in the early morning, 



3. — During the first fortnight of April search the honeysuckle by 

 night for the young larvro of Perieallia Hyriwjaria. 



4. — In open parts of woods, high up around the tops of young 

 aspens, the imagines of Brephos nutha are sometimes to be seen in 

 March and April on hot sunny days in considerable numbers, 



5. — Spruce fir cones collected in March and April should be over- 

 hauled for larvae of Coccyx strobilana which feed up and pupate 

 therein. 



6. — The larva of Epkippiphora niyricostana passes the winter in 

 the stems of Stachys sylvatica which should be collected in March and 

 April. 



7. — The larva of Grapliolitha nisana feeds in the catkins of sallow 

 in March and April. 



8. — Butalis inconyniella is much overlooked in the south of England 

 owing to its early appearance, we have repeatedly taken it in great 

 abundance in late April and early May on the chalkhills of Kent. 



9, — During the first week in April sweep Calluna vulgaris on heaths 

 and moors for larvae and cases of Coleophora juncicolella. 



10. — As soon as the sallows are in bloom, every warm evening 

 should be spent working those trees that are in sheltered spots. Living 

 females of Hoporina croceago should be fed with moistened sugar and 

 given a few oak-twigs with old leaves in a large glass jar, when eggs 

 will be laid freely. 



11. — Towards the end of March beat the bare twigs of ash, either 

 trees or hedgerow bushes, after dark, for larvae of Cirrlioedia xerampjelina. 

 Feed up on the large unopened buds until the trees break into leaf. 

 By this means some 40 or 50 larvffi were obtained in the spring of 

 1897, in Suffolk, and a nice series of imagines was bred therefrom 

 (James) . 



N.B. — Lists of some hundreds of similar " Practical Hints" may 

 be obtained from the preceding volumes. 



<grURRENT NOTES. 



The Entomological Society of London is fortunate in having 

 obtained the services of so excellent a Fellow as Mr. H. Rowland- 

 Brown, M.A., as secretary, in succession to Mr. J. J. Walker. We 

 have no doubt that Mr. Brown will fully keep up the high reputation 

 of our premier society, and prove a worthy successor to the best of his 

 distinguished predecessors. 



The President of the Entomological Society of London has appointed 

 Dr. T. A. Chapm.an, F.Z.S., Mr. W. L. Distant, F.E.S., and Mr. 

 C. 0. Waterhouse, F.E.S., to be Vice-Presidents for the year. 



In the, Annaleii de la SociSte entomolot/iijue de Belgiqiie, M. A. Lameere 

 records three additions to the list of Orthoptera known from Belgium. 

 The first is Oecanthus pellucens, Scop., the second Caloptenus italicus, 

 L., and finally Stenobothrus longicornis, Latr. This latter species is 

 most interesting. Hitherto it has only been recorded from certain 

 marshy localities in central France. The specimen upon which M. 



