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perana, of this species I took two, flying in a lane, early in April ; P. rugosana ; 

 P. ramana, and 0. cinerana, bred from aspen. The last named appears to be quite 

 distinct from nisana when reared. 



E. fceneana, bred from roots of mngwort. I have also been Buccessful in 

 rearing C. splendo.na and pomonanci,y and E. nehritana. — William R. Jeffkey, 

 November ith. 



Captures of Lepidoptera in the North (concluded from page 160.) — During the 

 last week in June, Mr. Gregson and I went to Felling Moss for Eup. plumheolata, 

 which wo soon met with in its old haunt, where 20 years ago I used to take it, 

 among Melampyrum. I got eggs, and sent tliem to Mr. Crewe. 



About five p.m. Psyche rohoricolella began flying freely among some old birch 

 stumps. We looked carefully for Elachista serricornis towards sunset, but could 

 not find any; indeed, it was a job to use one's eyes at all, for the midges bit us 

 awfully, and it was a glorious relief to get oS" that moss from such persistent 

 tormentors. When we got clear of the moss we began "Pugging," and boxed a 

 few specimens o? Eup. valerianata among others ; I now began to turn my attention 

 to Depressaria larva hunting, and, among Anthriseus sylvestris, got a number of 

 D. pimpinelloe and Weirella, from sallows conterminella ; and in the stems of Hera- 

 cleum both larva and pupa of pastinacella ; and fi-om angelica and thistles bred D. 

 angelicella. Whilst hunting for these larva3, 1 stumbled on a fine specimen of D. 

 pulcherrimella among some old grass at a tree root, and having adopted the 

 *' Pelissicr " mode, with some touch paper which I had in my pocket, soon secured 

 nine specimens. Just now the sun was setting, and began to shine on a grassy bank 

 with a good variety of vegetation, and here flitted about such metallic beauties as 

 Gracil. auroguttella, Coleoph. alcyonipe,nnella, and C. Schrankella ; some Coleoph. 

 murinipennella and ddscordella, Qelech. fratemella, maculella, and Laver. paludico- 

 lella, also kept filling my boxes until it became killing work, what with hot weather, 

 and what with being one half of the week at business, the other hardest half 

 collecting and setting such quantities of Mic7-os. I had to send a man to catch me 

 some P. interrogationis, of which he brought me about 50 specimens, for I could 

 not be everywhere at once. 



As I wanted to go for T.puhicornis, and also to get some Euchromia rufana, &c., 

 I took the first day I could spare, and went to Witherslack. On the road side, 

 among some sloe bushes, Ephip. signatana and Olindia ulmana were flying freely, 

 but I had only half-an-hour's work with them, before a thunderstorm upset my 

 hopes ; and then the wind got up furiously, so that my captures wore only three 

 Euchromia rufana, D. consortana, one Catop. expnllidana, two Scopoliann, Sciaph. 

 perterana and octomaculana, Elachis. adscitella, Cramhus falsellus, and a few Ephes. 

 semirufa, so that my day was of little use : my hope rested in the wind abating in 



the evening, which it did, but more disaster was in store for me a fire cleared 



tlic entire moss, and only stopped in its devastating course at the highway ; so 

 farewell to all the S. turfosalis, &c., I was to catch, and my green emeralds are gone 

 too for that locality. All was a blackened charred scene that a few days before 

 was covered with sweet gale and heather, so I trudged back to the inn, taking a 

 specimen of Tiiiea albipunctclla on the road thither. 



