The T<HJHG KAWBAMST : 



A Monthly Magazine of Natural History. 



Pakt 66. JUNE, 1885. Vol. 6. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL YEAR. 



By ALBERT H. WATERS, B.A. 



JUNE. 



"T3AINTED flies in livery gay, 

 •*~ Summer's angels round her stray, 

 And birds chant their most rapturous lay, 

 Summer bright is here ! — Anon. 



It is no easy task to describe the entomology of June. The insects are so 

 numerous that one hardly knows where to begin, what to speak of and what 

 to leave out. There is plenty of occupation now for the students of any 

 order. Not only the lepidopterist and the hymenopterist but the coleopterist 

 finds abundance of work, and it is impossible, within the limits of a paper 

 like this, to mention more than a very small fraction of the species the latter 

 is likely to meet with. He will find his favourite insects almost everywhere. 

 Running about on the ground, and now and then taking a short fight, may 

 still be seen, in sandy situations, the Emerald Tiger beetles (Cicindela cam- 

 pestrisj. Under stones and logs is lying Creophilus maxillosus, and others 

 of its kindred ; under bark are concealed divers species of Homalota y Rhizo- 

 JiaguSf and such like ; the snow-white flowers of the fragrant hawthorn con- 

 tain Rhynchites aquatus and many other minute species ; rushes and reeds by 

 the riverside shelter Donatio, linearis and its relatives, and the surface of the 

 water itself in quiet pools is enlivened by the mazy dance of dozens of whirl- 

 ing Gyrini, that never seem to tire in their playful evolutions. 



The fact has just been mentioned that hawthorn blossoms give shelter to 

 numbers of tiny Coleoptera. Homalium florale is sure to be there in abun- 

 dance, and among the other species which may be shaken out may be men- 

 oned Grammoptera ruficornis, Adimonia sanguinea, Helodes lividus, and 

 Cychramus fungicola, all of which are flower-loving kinds. 



On willow trees in most places in the south of England, may be found in 

 June, the fine and sweet scented Musk beetle (Aromia moschala), figured 



