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continueUa ; anomalella, by the score, from rose. From alder I 

 bred 300 LitJioculletis froUchiella, 30 L. kleemanncUa, a few L. 

 stettinensis, and several of the genus Ornix. 



During the month of Ajjril I found some tadpole-shaped 

 white larvae on my table. I could not think what they would be 

 until I saw one squeezing itself out of a tin box. Then it struck 

 me that I had a lot of Carex vulpinus in it. I had looked carefully 

 with a glass several times to see if any traces of larva3 were to be 

 found, but could find none ; however, I turned all the seeds into a 

 pot among some moss, and during the month of June bred about 

 20 GlypUipteryx oculatella. About the 26th of May I made a 

 journey for Catoptria aspidiscana ; although the wind blew 

 hard, there was a fair amount of sun, so I got about 60 in 

 three hours. 



I made a journey to Windermere during the first week in 

 June, and made a fairly good bag, the best being Micropteryx 

 mans net ella, perhaps a dozen, but as usual they died before I got 

 them home. On the first of June I went on the moors to 

 collect. The weather was cold with very little sun. I went 

 where I could get out of the cold, and collected about 100 mines 

 of LitJtocolletis vacciniella, only a dozen came out however, all the 

 rest were ichneumoned. About the 12th of June I wanted some 

 fresh Incurvaria canarieUa, but found my old locality had been 

 fired the season before with a jubilee bonfire, which caused me 

 to feel disloyal. I went exploring through a large nut-wood, 

 and came upon a charmingly secluded spot, and here met with 

 Eriopselafractifasciana, a rare species in the north. The next 

 moth was a Plume ; I secured it, but did not know my prize 

 until pinning it at home. I at once saw that it was a very fine 

 specimen of Mimaseoptilm hodgkinsoni, nothing like zophodac- 

 tyliis, not any of the slaty shade that is on either M. hipuncti- 

 daciylus or zophodactylus. The other two that I took were 

 in early June, and none of the food-plant of zoyhodactylus grows 

 near either of the localities where M. hodgkinsoni have occurred. 



My next ramble was into Argyleshire to look for Scapula 

 decrcpitalis. Very few have been met with since the late 

 Dr. Chapman used to take it some twenty-five years ago, and 

 I could only muster three specimens in my collection. The 

 weather was superb, everything that could be desired. I had the 

 benefit of my friend Mr. Watson's net also, otherwise I should 



