Practical Hints for the Field Lepidopterist 



PART I. 



Price 6/- Net. 

 (interleaved for collector's own notes). 



This is one of the most useful books ever offered to the field-lepidopterist, and 

 will save him time, trouble and expense in prosecuting his work. One thousand two 

 hundred and fifty practical hints are included, telling the lepidopterist how, when 

 and where to work for the more desirable species. No lepidopterist can afford to 

 be without a copy of this book. The older collectors will not only find many hints 

 that they do not know, but will find many facts that they may wish to remember 

 presented in a compact form. To the younger collector it offers a mass of informa- 

 tion that he could not hope to accumulate by himself in very many years of field 

 work. To all it must remain one of the most necessary books ever published for the 

 use of field-lepidopterists. The contents are divided into the following chapters : 

 (i) January, February, and early March; (2) late March and April; (3) May; (4) 

 June; (5) July; (6) August; (7) September; (8) October; (9) November and 

 December. Each chapter opens with a general review of the field work that can be 

 done in the period indicated, and this is followed by a classified list of the " Hints " 

 available for the period. Now that the whole of the material is grouped, it offers a 

 great mass of exact, useful and reliable information, bearing on the work of the 

 lepidopterist in the field, telling him exactly what to do and how to do it in the 

 fewest possible words and in the least possible space. Such information could only 

 be gathered by the individual worker as the result of many years' observation and by 

 reference to many books in which the facts are buried amongst a mass of other 

 entomological detail. Lepidopterists, experienced and inexperienced, will find in 

 this book much information that will suggest quite new lines of work in their collect- 

 ing, and enable them to find, in close proximity to their homes, species which they 

 had never suspected to be in their vicinity, and the saving of time and trouble will 

 thus be enormous. 



The published records of many of our most observant field-lepidopterists have 

 been largely drawn upon in the compilation of this work. Among many others 

 whose work has been laid under contribution are— Messrs. Alderson, Bankes, C. G. 

 Barrett, Birchall, Bignell, Bower, Buckler, Burrows, Butterfield, Chapman, Corbett, 

 Coverdale, Harpur-Crewe, Elisha, Fairer), Fenn, Finlay, W. H. B. Fletcher, J. E. 

 Gardner, Greene, Gregson, Hamm, Hellins, G. M. A. Hewett, Hodges, Hodgkin- 

 son, Holland, Home, James, Jager, Kane, McArthur, Machin, Mason, Merrin, 

 Moberly, Moires, Newman, Norgate, Norman, Prout, Porritt, Raynor, W. Reid, 

 Richardson, Riding, Robson, Robertson, Sheldon, Bernard Smith, Stainton, 

 Stott, Threlfall, Tunaley, Tugweli, Warren, Whittle, Wratislaw, Lord Walsing- 

 ham, &c. 



The book has been interleaved, so that collectors can add therein their own 

 notes, dates, &c. Reference has been made easy, the notes for each month being 

 classed under the superlamily heads to which they belong. Those for June come 

 under — Tineina (unclassified), Tineides, Adelides, Plutellides, Elachistides, 

 Gracillariides, Argyresthides, Coleophorides, Lithocolletides, Nepticulides, Tort- 

 ricides, Pyraloides, Crambides, Pyralides, Drepanulides, Cymatophorides, Brephides, 

 Geometrides, Pcerophorides, Sesiides, Zeuzerides, Cochlidides, Psychides, Anthro- 

 cerides, Lachneides, Sphingides, Deltoides, Lymantriides, Nycteolides, Notodontides, 

 Noctuides, Arctiides and Papilionides. These also will give an idea of the range 

 covered by the notes. 



PART 2. 



At the present moment, a second part is in course of publication, due to the 

 success attained by Part I. Like the latter, it will contain about 1250 short 

 " practical hints " on the model now so well known in Part I. Each chapter 

 will also contain a preliminary summary of the work to be done during each 

 month. As the method of work in the field was more particularly dealt with in 

 Part I, these summaries in Part II will deal more especially with the points 

 raised by the various methods of Rearing larvae in confinement, Sleeving, Breeding- 

 cages, Food, and Feeding larvae ; Obtaining eggs in confinement from butterflies 

 and moths ; Special treatment of pupce ; Keeping pupa? through winter ; Special 

 treatment of certain larvae in order to obtain pupae ; Sugaring ; Assembling ; ; Forcing, 

 and a host of similar important topics to the entomologist. Quite new ground will 

 be broken, and there will be no repetition. The hints will be arranged on a precisely 

 similar manner to those in Part I, with the general notes for the month at the 

 commencement of each chapter. The whole of the copies of Part II will be 

 interleaved, and the price will be the same as for Part I, 6s. net. 



All the above Works 



To be obtained from H. E. PAGE, " Bertrose," Gellatly Road, 



Hatcham, S.E. 



