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sub-histrigella on or>e little group of spruce firs. This species and 
L. decorella were also occasionally to be found on oak trunks, from 
which also I took Eudorea eembrce and truncicolalis, Leptogramma 
literana, Pcedisca prqfundana, Grapliolitlia PaylculUana, Tinea argenti- 
mactdella, Gelechia sororculella, Lyellella, maculea, tricolorella, gemmella, 
and the pretty novelty, Knaggsiella, Chelaria conscriptella, and Tri- 
furcula atrifrontella ; and once I was startled by blowing off— what I 
might have seen had I looked more closely, — Liparis monacha. 
The success of this mode of collecting depends, as will readily be 
supposed, in a great measure upon the weather. If a steady breeze is 
blowing, it is often very productive ; while, if it is stormy or gusty, 
hardly a moth can be obtained,— they doubtless get puffs of wind on 
all sides of the tree ; if, on the other hand, it is still and hot, they 
have no need of the protection of the tree at all. 
I hardly need say that some little strength of lungs is almost 
indispensable. Indeed, it is impossible to avoid some inconvenience 
from constant puffing ; and I have often been almost stupified with 
headache for a short time, when I have kept too closely at it. 
One great advantage of this plan is that such things as Cleora 
licTienaria, Leptogramma literana, Psoricoptera gihhosella, and Qelechia 
fugitivella, which so exactly resemble the bark or lichens of the tree 
that it is next to impossible to detect them upon it, can be collected 
with perfect ease, and those that creep close into the chinks of the 
bark can be persuaded to come forth, while it is obviously easier to 
box them in the net than on a tree trunk. 
Haslemere, VJth January, 1866. 
Note on hyhernation and moulting of Anthrocera trifolii. — Having never before 
reared from the efo' any of the Burnets, I watched with much interest a brood from 
a batch of eggs sent me by Dr. Knaggs in the summer of 1864 ; and I have made a 
note of one or two things, which struck mo as deserving notice. The larvae were 
hatched about the end of July, and fed and grew slowly till the beginning of winter. 
Those T had in 1864 were about 2 lines in length when their hybernation com- 
menced, but another brood which I had in 1865 were half as long again. Having 
made up their minds that winter was coming, these larvee congregated together in 
two or three httle companies on the side of their glass cylinder, and spinning— each 
for itself— a firm foothold of silken threads, put themselves side by side in position 
for their long fast. Up to this time they had been of a green tint, with rows of 
black spots, and this colouring was not affected by the variation in the size, which 
in the different years they attained before ceasing to feed ; — but for winter wear 
there came in a new fashion altogether : they became semi-translucent to look at, 
