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numbers. Brep/ws parthenias also has been abundant on sunny days 

 in Leigh Woods, but my opportunities for day collecting being limited, 

 I have only so far secured a very few specimens. — G. C. Griffiths. 

 April \6th, 1891. 



Weymouth. — Twice this season I have been out "sallowing," I have found 

 insects fairly plentiful, but nothing actually worth taking. Tczniocampa 

 cruda, T. stabilis and T. gothica, the latter in abundance, and a few 

 Z"' mstabilis. As we have had a very severe winter, other species may 

 be a few days or weeks later. — A. Forsyth. April 6t/i, 1891. 



Chinnor. — Sallows are very late this year. I beat nine Tccniocampa 

 populeti last evening from one sallow bush growing under a row of six 

 aspen poplars. — A. J. Spiller, Chinnor, Oxon. April \']th, 1891. 



Clevedon. — Sallows are almost over. Insects have been tolerably 

 abundant at the catkins on the few favourable evenings we have had, 

 but I have taken nothing special. — J. Mason, Clevedon, Court Lodge, 

 Somerset. April i^th, 1891. 



Carlisle. — On Good Friday, I set out for Carlisle, prospecting new ground 

 for the summer; I went first to Armthwaite on the Eden and into Barrow 

 Wood. Mr. Eales and I searched the mosses on the walls for Eudorea 

 larvcC and Gelechia confitiis, and among the lichens for Xysmatodoma 

 argentimaculella. After a walk of four hours and much searching we 

 returned discouraged and thoroughly done up. About the middle of 

 April I started for Kingmoor, and in a sheltered place discovered 

 Micropteryx in great numbers ; I shook a dozen into my umbrella at 

 once, and, although having a hundred boxes, had to put eight or ten 

 into one large box. They are such a size and in splendid condition. 

 They vary much, many I think are purpurella, a species I am little 

 acquainted with. On April 22nd, Mr. Eales, my nephew and I went to 

 Corby to search the Luzula for Elachista larvae. In two hours we 

 found about a dozen, which I believe to be trapeziella, and were much 

 discouraged, thinking we were too early for inagnificella., when I noticed 

 a Luzida leaf puckered together, and my friends also brought some for 

 investigation. On one small spot about five yards in length we got 

 them in profusion. No blade vvas without a larva, some contained two 

 and even three. My large canister was soon full and my coat pockets 

 filled with roots and soil. What turns up in breeding will tell what 

 we have. I brought the whole away and they are doing well. — J. B. 

 HoDGKiNSON, Ashton-on-Ribble. Alay \st, 1891. 



Wicklotv and Exmouth. — I had 3 days at sallows in Wicklow 3 weeks 

 since, and one night in Exmouth, Devon. Insects were scarce, especially 

 in Devon. I took a i^w \Xylocampa lithoriza, Xylina rhizolitha, 

 Tceniocampa munda, one T. opima, one X. petrificata (Exmouth) ; and 

 two Hybertiia progemmaria on the 20th April (rather late for this 

 insect in South Devon I think), as well as common Tmniocampas . I 

 also found at rest in the day time two Cidaria miata, the ? of which 

 laid a batch of ova. These hatched out on April 30th, but the larvae 

 would not feed on the young birch leaves I supplied and all died ! Will 

 some one explain ? I think I have taken the larvee when half-grown 

 on birch. There is no alder here or I should have tried that. I put 

 one larva on lime, but fear it is dead also. My experience was 

 equally unfortunate with Catocala fraxini (foreign) ova. The larvae 

 would not feed on the young balsam-poplar leaves, sallow nor 



