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but gave every one a shake ; we found the fir trees which were growing amongst the 

 birch to produce a good many specimens. Plutella cruciferarum were taken flying 

 above the heather on the 23rd ; on the 30th we began to take larvre and pupae of 

 Retinia turionaiia from the shoots of fir : the affected shoots can very easily be 

 detected, as tiiey are invariably covered with resin. Nepticula salicis was out 

 amongst sallow on May Ist, and cases of Coleophora pyrrhuUpennella were taken by 

 sweeping tlie heath the same date. Three days later I took my first Argyresthia 

 Ocedartella and Elachista rvjocinerea Larvie of Platyptilia gonodactyla were 

 found plentifully feeding in the flowers of coltsfoot on the 6th. Epigraphia Stein- 

 kellneriana and L. alnifoliella were taken on the 8th, both beaten from hawthorn. 

 The 15th produced GeJechia longicornis and O. ericetella from amongst heather, C. 

 albleosta from furze, M. calthella from flowers of lady's smock. Larvae of Depres- 

 saria assimilell a were very common between united twigs of broom. 



A visit to Wreay on the 9th saw taken the following: — Olyphipteryx fusco- 

 viridella, P. gonodactyla, Sligmonota dorsana, Cramlus tristellus, C. pratellus and 

 C. hortnellus. Two days spent at Keswick on the 18th and 19th were very dis- 

 appointing, only Scoparia ambigualis turning up. At Durdar, on the 20th, I beat 

 out of fir R. pinivorana and Paedisca rubiginosana ; I also bred Aspis Udmanniana 

 from bramble the same date. Coleophora genista began to emerge on the 23rd, and 

 was joined on the 24th by C nigricella. Mixodia Schulziana was not scarce 

 amongst heather, along with Pletirota hicostella. Argyresthia retinella and Graci- 

 laria semifascia were taken from birch and sallow on July 4th, and on the 11th 

 Cemiostoma laburnella and spartifoliella were taken in the pupa state, the former 

 from laburnum, the latter from broom ; pupte of D. eostosa were also taken in their 

 white webs on furze. Sericoris conchana and lacunana, Ochsenheimeria Birdella, 

 and Eupoecilia angustana were noticed at Newby Cross on the 17th. Along the 

 banks of the Caldew on the 26th Catoptria Scopoliana was taken in numbers, and 

 from a small plantation Chelaria Hiibnerella, Gelechia populella, Batrachedra 

 preangusta and Phoxopteryx Mitterhacheriana were beaten. Depressaria utnbellana 

 and Gelechia muUnella were bred from furze. One day in August (8th) produced 

 Micros in plenty. Grapholitha Paykulliana, Argyresthia allistria, A. conjugella, 

 A. semitestacella, Peroiiea aspersana, Phoxopteryx Lundana, P. comparana, Har- 

 pella xylosiella, Penthina betuletana, Chelaria Hiibnerella, Harpella nemorella> 

 Grapholitha nisella, Cerostoma costella, Poedisca Solandriana, Elachista luticomella, 

 (Ecophora Jlavimaculella, Gelechia sororculella, G. cinerella, and Lithocolletis 

 viminella. Some few vara, of Teras caudana were taken a week later, seven of them 

 being pale yellow delicately reticulated with reddish-brown. Peronea Schalleriana 

 and Elachista zonariella turned up on the 15th ; Teras contaminana and P. varie- 

 gana both variable, the latter especially so, I noticed on August 22nd. One specimen 

 of Exapate gelatella and a few hibernated examples of Depressaria heracleana were 

 all that were taken in October. 



Besides the Micros mentioned in the foregoing list, I have had since named by 

 Mr. Barrett the following, all from this district : — Dictyopleryx Laflingiana, Pero- 

 nea ferrugana, Grapholitha navana, Sciaphila pascuana, 8. subjectana and virgaure- 

 ana, Coleophora limcsipeniiella, Argyresthia ephippella, Laverna lacteella, Ornix 

 gnttea, Lampronia prelatella and rubiella, Aphelia pratana, Lithocolletis coryli- 



