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that it made a female almost as unsettled, and not worth set- 

 ting. About this time some case-bearers crept up from among 

 a lot of oak-leaves I had gathered at Windermere for Litho- 

 colletis. Five of these grew up well. I gave them plenty of 

 air and food, and they are still sticking to the side of the 

 flower-pot. I cleared all the rubbish out of the pot, lest a 

 female, apterous or otherwise, might come out. Knowing how 

 soon the Psychidse spoil themselves, I got some of my family to 

 watch them several times each day, but the moths are still 

 unemerged. The case is straight. The larva is a dirty white, 

 with a row of black spots ; the head a pale bone-colour, with a 

 distinct black ring or collar behind. My troubles now began, for 

 Lithocolletis lantella and L. ij'radiella came out by scores, a few 

 L. amyotella and L. kleemannella, with plenty of L.frdlichiella, 

 and others of the same group, keeping me at home setting. 

 L quinqueguttella came out so fast that I put a dozen or more in 

 a box at a time to kill them. Ornix loganella kept turning up 

 through May. I got tired of setting, so determined to have a 

 ramble on the moors. So I took my conveyance about twelve 

 miles, to see if any Nemophoin pilella were out : this was the 

 first week in June ; the day was a bad one, no sun and a cold 

 wind blowing. Some I dislodged from fir-trees, but mostly 

 I found them at rest by seeing their long antennae moving about. 

 I got about eighteen males. I was evidently a little late, as there 

 were no Thecla ruhi nor Gelechia longicornis ; whereas in 1886, 

 it being much colder, the late Mr. John Sang and I saw the 

 latter species about at once on the same date. However, I made 

 a very fair bag, having filled over a hundred boxes from 11 a.m. 

 to p.m. I may note that the Incurvaria oehlmanniella were the 

 largest I ever saw, as large as Lampronia luzella. I got a fine lot 

 of Phoxopteryx myrtillana, Clepsis rusticana, and some fine 

 Peronea ferrugana. 



The week after I paid Windermere a visit, to look for Micro- 

 pteryx mansuetella, a species now nearly lost. Through drainage 

 and cultivation, and the underwood being so thick, I had only a 

 few yards to work on. All the streams and swampy places where 

 the last-named species occurred were dried up. I managed in 

 three days to take twenty, a few only being good. Altliough I 

 put them in big boxes, and went as early as possible to my 

 lodgings, in a few hours after capture most of them had dried up, 



