THB NATURALISMS’ JOURNAL. 
The enormous expansive power of various species of fungi is 
marvellous. Some twenty years ago one of the streets of Basing¬ 
stoke was paved. Soon the pathway showed the most inexplicable 
signs of unevenness, and in about two months some of the 
largest and heaviest flagstones were lifted completely from their 
beds by the growth of the soft cellular tissue of huge toadstools. 
One of these stones weighed eighty three pounds, which, when 
the almost greater resistance of the mortar be taken into 
consideration, gives one some idea of the vast, silent, and unseen 
power of these perhaps the strangest of plants. 
HINTS FOR THE MONTH. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
Look on twigs and tree trunks for Eriogaster lanestris. If the 
sallows be ,in bloom visit them for the tczniocampce , if not try 
sugar and light. 
Brephos notha , B. parthenias and Ceropacha flavicornis fly by 
day in the open parts of woods ; the two latter are partial to 
birch trees and flavicornis may be found at rest on the branches. 
C. ridens may be expected towards the end of the month if the 
weather be mild and should be looked for on oak trunks, or pal¬ 
ings in the vicinity. 
Look on fir trunks for Trachea piniperda , also search oak and 
larch trunks ; N. hispidaria and A. prodromaria may be expected 
at the former and T. crepuscularia at the latter. Dasypolia templi 
may still be found under stones in the north. 
LARVyE. 
Several larvae may be found now by searching grass at night 
with a lantern or early in the morning, especially look for such 
“wainscots” as Leucania straminea. Also search low plants, 
that is weeds, in the same way for Caradrina alsines (on dock), 
Tryphoena inter]eda, T. orbona , etc., C. cubicularis , if you want 
it, you may find in abundance on chickweed. Phlogophora flammea 
is local but the larvae should be sought for by those residing on 
the Sussex coasL Look now for the curious cases of the Psychidce; 
Psyche nigricans occurs in the New Forest. Search on lichens 
for several species which in the larval state feed upon them, such 
as Bryophila perla, B. muralis , and Cleora lichenaria. Look on 
the Scotch fir trees for mines of Cedestis farinatella and Ocnerostoma 
pinariella. Entomologists living in Perthshire should look out 
for Cedestis gysselinella which spins a white web between the leaves 
of the Scotch firs at Rannoch—A. H. Waters. 
