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The next time we visited Blackorag Pass, which we did at dusk, and under the 

 combined auspices of rain and treacle, we added the following to our list : — 

 Lwrentia oUvata and Eupithecia pulchellata (whose foxgloves I don't think grow 

 among the rocks) ; besides which, Mr. Blackburn took Mamestra furva. I never 

 recollect seeing Oeometridce in such swarms as were C. munitata and pectinitaria, L. 

 salicaria, ccesiata, and olivata. The failure of " sugar " was signalized by the sole 

 appearance of an old and long-tried acquaintance, X. polyodon. 



The following day (June 29th) we were again in the Cassiope neighbourhood, 

 but either the unfavourable weather prevented its appearance, or, as I fancy, the 

 species was quite over by that time. Going up Blackcrag Pass for the third time, 

 we captured Venusia cambrica, settled on a rock, and one of the Larentidce, which 

 I have not at present satisfactorily made out, and my friend took another M. furva. 



Next day we walked from Langdale, in the direction of Conistone, by a way 

 which I consider, next to Borrowdale, affords some of the most striking scenery of 

 any walk in the Lake District. It furnished Mr. Blackburn with Plusia interro- 

 gationis ; this was taken flying over short heath, near a tarn on the right hand side 

 of the road, which precedes a further tarn called, I beUeve, Little Langdale Water. 



We collected on Loughrigg Fell the evening before we left Ambleside. We 

 ascended it on the 3rd of July, in the evening, to watch the sunset ; and we both 

 agreed that the view of the mountains in the grey of the evening, especially in the 

 direction of Bow Fen, and the Langdales, was the grandest sight we witnessed 

 during the excursion. 



Here let me warn all climbers of Loughrigg Fell to notice particularly the 

 point to which the path through the wood, which grows on the side, leads them, 

 and on no account to descend by any other way, for in trying to do so, we ran the 

 most imminent risk of breaking our necks, though we took HepiaVas velleda and 

 Melanippe wiangulata. — E. M. Geldart, Rose Hill, Bowdon. 



Captwes nea/r Saffron Walden. — A. Atropos and 0. Poreellus in the larva state ; 

 0. quercifolia and T. Cratwgi, bred ; E. fuscanta/ria, attracted by light ; A. iinitaria, 

 bred, middle of June, from a long, slender, ochreous larva, curHng up the anterior 

 segments when disturbed, found on galium May 13th ; C. temerata, E. decolorata, 

 caught. Of the " Pugs " I have bred Eup. venosata, linariata, Haworthiata, and 

 exiguata ; also, from barberry, A. herherata abundantly, and two or three certata ; 

 from clematis, P. tersata and vitalbata, and I. vernaria ; from buckthorn, S. duhi- 

 tata, vetulata, and rhamnata. 



C. reclusa and curtula, bred ; A. Ugustri, bred from privet ; N. saponariw and 

 H. popularis, at light ; X. citrago, at ivy bloom ; E. ochrolouca, two at rest, on leaves 

 of knapweed, one caught flying, August ; E. viminalis, bred from sallow. At 

 Scarborough, in July, I again met with the larva of D. TempU, feeding in the roots 

 of the corn parsnip. 



E. crocealis, bred from flea-bane. S. cinctalis. — This is said to feed in the 

 larva state on broom, but where I take the insect there is none, but quantities of 

 mugwort. Is not the last-named plant a more likely one for the larva to feed on ? 

 S. ferrugalis captured. 



D. scmifasciana, bred from sallow ; P. m^rginana, bred from teazle ; S. pau- 



