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Next morning it was blowing a gale, and I found a lot of thistles that took me 

 nearly all day to examine for larva), and I got probably 200, which I hoped would 

 have been JDepressaria carduclla ; but when I came to look at them, they were so 

 variable that I could not be certain about them, and time told them to bo arenella 

 (gilvella) ; they mined in the same manner as carduella. 



Some heaps of old dead juniper that were piled up for burning, upon being 

 turned up, produced Thera coniferata, Eup. constrictata and rujifasciata, and plenty 

 of sobrinata : but the gale kept on, so I came home again to business for a few 

 days. When the weather began to settle, I found time to go to Windermere for 

 Cidaricb reticulata, but had no luck. The day was melting hot, and in those close 

 avenues so many flies and " cleggs " bite and buz about one's face that, if a moth ia 

 beaten out, you can hardly see it. However, T worked hard, and made up a bag 

 with Emmelesia twniata, C. oUvata, 8. duhitata, H. costaistrigalis, Eudorea truncico- 

 lalis, a single specimen of E. gracilalis, and a good supply of Arg. ephipphella off 

 the wild cherry, and anderreggiella from the crab. Another visit produced 

 nothing different ; the weather was as fine as needs be, but I would rather have 

 had a storm the night before to drive the moths out of the trees. 



At the end of July I went down to Lytham, among the dwarf sallows that 

 grow on the sand-hills ; here, by going down on my knees and parting the roots, 

 the following began to creep up:— GeZ. cinerella, setiectella, ligulella, distinctella, 

 macuUferella, temerella, sororculella, myriads of marmorella and arteviisiella, Dep. 

 nanatella, Teatiella, ocellella, conterminella, and also Lithocolletis quinqueguttella ; 

 and in the afternoon, if sunny, Ephip. ephiphana flew in plenty. 



Whilst I was on my knees another net came up, and a little conversation 

 proved we had before met, and I recognized an old friend ; and upon asking him 

 what he had done this season, he told me he had taken an " ermine," a bit of a 

 variety ; it is a luhricepeda, radiated in a ci'escentic form, and a very handsome 

 variety. I may here note a Geometra I took in July out of a lamp; it may be 

 a variety of Cidaria unidentata by the pectination of the antennse, but the ground 

 colour is chocolate, aud the band through the wings like that of Thera variata. 



The next journey was to Rhyl, N. Wales, for Luperina Gueen^ei, with my friend, 

 C. S. G. ; we raked at day time, and sought diligently with lamps at night, but could 

 only find testacea, proecox, valligera, cursoria, and such-like, and, at day time, Depress, 

 rhodochrella, propinquella, Alstrcemcriana, hadiella, and Eupaecilia atricapitana. 



A few days after my return, I called upon a friend of mine in Manchester, who 

 had been " beetleising" and botanising on the Tslo of Man, whence he brought back 

 two moths ; and when I called for them, I found they were a beautiful pair ( ^ and 

 ? ) of Troch. muscwforme, so fine in the belts and plumage, that it has rather 

 puzzled some parties who have Torquay specimens to compare them with ; the 

 latter appearing to have been badly used. 



I must now bring my rambles to a close, aud also my disjointed rambling notes, 

 by saying that my last trip (September 22nd) to Witherslack produced very little ; 

 some splendid Thera jvrmata almost like a distinct species, some Lyon. Clerckella, 

 and Cidaria psittacata from the yews, and Botys ferrugalis out of a young fir, were 

 all I got. I forgot to mention that when C. S. G. and I were in a young larch 

 plantation, some of the ti-eea were devastated by Coleophom lancella. I have also 



