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On a new method of COLLECTING MICRO (AND OTHER) LEPIDOPTERA. 
BY C. a. BAREETT. 
The extreme sensitiveness which many of the Tineina, and 
especially the Oeleckice, exhibit to the slightest breath of wind, must 
often have attracted attention. Let a Gelechia or Depressaria be ever 
so snugly ensconced in a chink of bark, or among grass roots or rubbish, 
a puff of air is sure to send it skipping and darting about, to find a 
sheltered place to hide in. For this reason, those species that frequent 
tree trunks are only to be found on the sheltered sides, where they 
often creep close into the chinks of the bark for greater security. 
This peculiar sensitiveness makes it easy to capture them, by 
placing the net in a suitable position, and blowing sharply upon the 
tree trunk, when the moths will start off at once, and be intercepted by 
the net. 
I have adopted this plan with some little success during the last 
two seasons, the greater portion of species taken being among the 
Tineina, but several other families being represented. 
In JNIay I obtained by this method Ornix torquillella and guttea and 
Trifurcula 2^ulverosella, from apple trunks ; Nepticida argentipedella 
and aurella, from birch ; Nepticula TityreUa, from beech ; Lithocolletis 
tristrigella and Sclireherella, Bucculatrix Boyerella, and Nepticula 
marginicolella, from elm; and Eupithecia ahhreviata, Leptogramma 
literana, Micropteryx Thunhergella, Gelechia aleella and luculella, 
Coleopliora murinipennella, Bucculatrix ulmella, Nepticula atricapitella, 
rujicapitella, suhhimacidella, floslacteUa, and salicis, from oak ; many of 
them in some numbers. 
Nepticula sub-himaculella continued common on oak trunks in June, 
and I found a lot of Gelechia fugitivella on a wych elm, to the bark of 
which they bore such a resemblance that it was very difiicult to see 
them until they darted ofT. 
It was in July and August, however, that I found blowing the tree 
trunks most productive. Elm trunks produced Gerostoma vittella com- 
monly ; sycamore, G. sequella ; oak, G. alpella ; and apple, G. scahrella. 
Psoricoptera gihhosella tumbled off the oak trees in numbers, and was 
to be found till the middle of September. From apple trunks I 
obtained Cleora lichenaria, Gelechia umbrosella, and G. rhombella in 
plenty ; and, singularly enough, two specimens of Depressaria pul- 
cherrimella, almost the only Depressaria I ever saw on a tree trunk. 
Eudorea resinalis and mercuralis, and Grapholitha nisana, occurred on 
elm trunks ; Endorea truncicolalis was plentiful on firs, and Laverna 
