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with their hind legs quite rigid out behind them. It was just the 

 same when I tried to bring them home, a distance of fifty miles. 

 The great heat last season made man}' other species spoil them- 

 selves, although I often buried m}' tin canister, with all the pill- 

 boxes, among wet moss, to keep the specimens cool and alive. 

 When coming up one of the walks a si^ecimen of Notodonta 

 ziczac was settling on an oak-trunk, and a little above it was a 

 very large and fine Cidaria corylata. Among the golden rod 

 Ennycliia octomaculalis was flitting about freely in the shade. A 

 fine specimen of Spilonota roscecolana surprised me ; no " hips " 

 of roses had been near that I could find. 



On ray return home a very large Gabera rotundaria was flying 

 about my breeding-room, — no doubt an escape. During the 

 month lots of things came into ray room to light, such as a fine 

 lot of Cidaria dotata, and an endless lot of Abraxas grossulariata, 

 H. vauaria, Boarmia rhomboidaria, and Lojjhopteryx camelina. 

 On looking at some currant-sticks sent me, there were Sesia 

 tipuliforniis out, one apparently without a head, but otherwise 

 quite perfect. Until I pinned it I could not make it out, as it was 

 unlike anything I had seen. I suppose this will be questioned, 

 but there was no mistake. 



In the early portion of July I spent two or three days a week 

 after ChrysocUsta bimacidella, but to no purpose. The best 

 species I took was Laverna lacteella. What an active moth this is 

 about 5 p.m., so unlike the lazy L. propinquella : it needs keeping 

 in the net. I made a sweep near where I had taken C. bimacu- 

 lella, and swept a pair, in cop., of what I thought by the large 

 spots were C. bimacidella, but they were only C. sclirankella. I 

 raay note also that specimens of the latter, even this hot summer, 

 were larger than usual. I also took Bucculatrix demaryella, and 

 four or five Coleophora orbitella. 1 thought one evening I had 

 taken Eiipoecilia manniana, the setting sun shining on its pale 

 yellow wings ; but the perfume of the wild mint made me 

 think it could only be E. notulana. What a pest Bactra lanceo- 

 lana was, sometimes flying easily and softly in circles. Lam- 

 p)ronia luzella was commoner than usual. Phoxopteryx dhninu- 

 tana, an insect that spoils itself in the box, occurred sparingly 

 among the sallows. Ptycholoma lecheana was of great size, and it 

 is years since I took the pretty Roxana arcuana. Now and again 

 Hylophila prasinana would tumble ofl" a nut-hush. Leiopt'dus 



