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firs, one by Mr. Morton, the second by myself; centralis, Curt., comnwn everywhere 

 by beating ; auricula. Curt., taken in the Black Wood ; griseus, L., very common 

 by beating firs ; extricatus, McL., luridus, Curt., sparsus. Curt., these three were 

 obtained by sweeping over the marshy ground, and also by beating firs. 



Micropterna lateralis, Steph., taken at night by sweeping, and also at the Lepi- 

 dopterists' sugar. 



EccHsopterifx gnttiilata, Pict., one specimen taken. 



Apatania Wallengreni, McL., not uncommon along the loch side, but we were 

 much too late for the males, only an odd one or so being taken. 



Brachycentrus suhnubilus, Curt., common, with the last. 



Philopotamus montanus, Donov., taken on the moor above Camnchgouran. 



Plectrocnemia conspersa, Curt., not uncommon in the small streams upon the 

 moor, but a little difficult to catch. 



Rhyacophila dorsalis, Curt., on the moor burns. 



Hgdroptila forcipata, Etn., in bedroom, probably from Cross Craig Burn, in- 

 troduced on my beating umbrella. 



207, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow : 

 February, 1899. 



MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA IN CUMBERLAND IN 1898. 

 BY G. WILKINSON. 



The season of 1898, taken as a whole, was rather a disappointing one ; never- 

 theless, I succeeded in adding about twenty species new to my list. In January 

 larvae of Phlaeodes immundana were as usual very common all through the district 

 in alder catkins, and cases of Coleophora ccespititiella swarmed wherever the common 

 rushes were growing. I collected a lot of oak and beech leaves for Lithocolletis 

 pupas, and subsequently bred plenty of L. quercifoliella, faginella, Cramerella, 

 HeegerieUa, and a few irradiella. Throughout February hibernated examples of 

 Depressaria applana, arenella and ocellana were frequently met with. On March 

 12th I took my first Diurnea fagella sitting on a fir trunk, and on the same date 

 Tortricodes hyemana was flying in profusion. I found the best method of taking 

 the females of the latter to be by seai'ching the oak trunks at night with a lamp ; 

 they appeared to prefer to be near the ground, as most of them were found very low 

 down. April 3rd saw Ephestia Kuhniella coming out in scores from larvae obtained 

 in one of the flour mills in town. On the 8th, whilst travelling to Keswick, I took 

 in the railway carriage a new Tortrix to my list, Phlosodes crenana. 



It was now about time to look up the various species in the genus Micropteryx. 

 The way we worked for these was by procuring a large white sheet about 8 ft. by 6 ft., 

 and two held the sheet underneath the trees whilst one beat them ; I always found 

 the best time to work was between four and six o'clock. By beating through the 

 day they mostly fly, and therefore do not get into the sheet ; whilst towards dusk 

 they drop down and sit quite still. By this means we took caledoniella, purpurella, 

 Sangii, semipurpurella, suhpurpurella, unimaculella and Sparmannella. By far the 

 most common was unimaculella. We did not confine ourselves to any kind of ti-ee, 



