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at arms length on the floor, the landlady standing by with her apron in her mouth. 

 As soon as I saw it, I took it up : " Lord," says he, " I darnt ha' done that for a 

 " week's wage. I niver seed such an a beast afore i' all my puff." — IIowabd 

 BiBCHALL, Kirkstall Q-rove : October Gth, 1872. 



Captures at Wlthcrslach : Argyrolepia luridana and other species — On the 18th 

 of July, I went 40 miles north from Manchester, in hopes of again meeting with A. 

 hiridana. Although the day had been fine, the rain came down in torrents before 

 I reached Grange, and from there I had four miles to walk, so that it was nearly 

 dark by the time I reached the locality for A. luridana. I only boxed one Ptero- 

 phorus Bertrami and a few Argyrolepia hadiana ; nothing else was stirring, except 

 Cramhus culmellus and a few common OeometridcB. 



The next morning, on the bank opposite the Inn, I found a specimen of Catop- 

 tria, Westwoodiana {expallidana) , but could not find a second. An odd specimen of 

 Cramhus falsellus, Lithosia cnmplanula, and worn specimens of Eupithecia distinctata,, 

 were all I could beat out of the dripping wet yews and hollies. So I resolved to go 

 over Whitbarrow : on the moss I had to pass, I saw Hyria auroraria, Cnephasia 

 lepidana, and larvae of Hadena glauca ; on Whitbarrow itself, I saw nothing worth 

 boxing, only Elachista Oleichenella and Argyresthia dilectella, and an odd specimen 

 of E. triseriatella. As I returned, I took a fine Argynnis Aglaia settled on some 

 wild thyme : it is the Charlotta variety. 



In the evening I was joined by a young friend, Mr. H. Threlfall, and we took 

 one Coleophora fuscociliella, 72 Hypenodes humidalis, together with sundry Ebulea 

 crocealis, sericealis, Dicrorampha consortana, Catoptria ScopoUana, Pterophorus 

 Bertrayni, osteodactylus, plagiodactylus, bipunctidactylus, Parasia Metzneriella, 

 Coleophora limosipennella, pyrrhulipennella, viminetella, &c. 



The next morning we went on to the moss to look for Elachista serricornis, but 

 could not find a single one, nor even E. rhynchosporella ; the only thing worth pin- 

 ning was Coleophora juncicolella. In a dark shady place, we took a fine Cnephasia, 

 Penziana. We then turned to larva hunting, and I got what I expect will prove to 

 be larva3 of Dep. pallorella, and found a fine larva of Calocanipa exoleta feeding on 

 the hawkweed. Then we collected a number of Nemotois minimellus, Qelechia senec- 

 tella, Oracilaria auroguttella, &c. It was now nearly nine o'clock, and I was quite 

 giving up all hopes of A. luridana, when a moth flew past me and settled on a twig 

 in the hedge, and I saw it was A. hiridana, and made a dash at it, and secured it : 

 a rather worn male specimen (the first week in July is the proper time for this 

 insect) ; this is the seventh specimen I have taken. 



On our way home on the following morning, we met with a fine Pterophorus 

 Bertrami by the road side, and boxed a score of Euchromia rujana. — J. B. HoDGKlN- 

 SON, 15, Spring Bank, Preston : August \2th, 1872. 



Morayshire NoctucB in 1872. — -When, in December last, I made up my yearly 

 return of captures in Morayshire, I imagined we had experienced as bad a season 

 as possible. The result of the past season, however, has been infinitely worse. 

 Indeed, from the almost constant rain and low temperature, most of the Noctuce 

 usually common here have been either very scarce, or entirely wanting. 



For comparison with other localities, more than to record rarities, I ventui'c to 

 give the result of my doings here. 



February 20th — Found many laiTa; of S. anomala ; they are best found by the 

 aid of a lantern, for they feed quite exposed at night on grass : the moth afterwards 

 in the autumn, sparingly. I also bred Anarta myrtilU. March 14th — On the 



