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remarkable with roseticolana to select one piece of cork out of 

 others ; it seemed as though there had been gregarious pupation. 

 The first week in July I paid a visit to Witherslack, the weather 

 was fine, the heat intense. The mosses swarmed with 

 Coenonympha tyiilwii, Acidalia fmnata, Aspilatcs strigillaria, &c. 

 It was too hot to be outside, so I turned among the shade of the 

 birches, and took 60 fine Coleophora u-ilkinsoni ,-. Lithosia 

 mesomella began to fly, about 7 p.m. The place was literally 

 alive with flies, gnats, &c., and I had a warm time of it. The 

 same week I went to Windermere, where I got a grand lot 

 of Neptkula intimella, and sundry other useful specimens. About 

 11 a.m. I saw some NepticulcB flying round a low beech bush. I 

 netted over 100 in two hours, thinking some might be N. fidgens, 

 however they were all N. tityrella. On removing my old series 

 of 30 from my cabinet to replace them with these new ones, 

 I found 8 fidgens among the old ones. I bred the whole lot 

 from Windermere some dozen years ago. Whilst waiting on the 

 Neptiadce, I saw flying round a young oak, at a distance from 

 me, what 1 thought were Adela viridella, in great numbers ; I did 

 not want any, but passing by shortly after I found they were 

 Ennychia octomacidata , males, in such numbers that there must 

 have been a female about. I boxed 14, sometimes 4 in my net 

 at once. 



Odd stragglers of P. postremana came out through July ; 

 Eiipithecia constrictata, fine, slaty coloured specimens from the 

 Isle of Man, and large E. valerianata, from Windermere, I went 

 to get a few salinacis form of Lyccena astrarche, they were very 

 scarce owing to the rain and cold winds. During a brief sun- 

 shine I swept a few off some ferns. I called on my way at 

 Arnside, and found PJiothedes captiimcula out. Late in July I spent 

 three days at Witherslack, two pretty fine the other one being 

 a drencher. The Saturday was sunny with no wind. I made a 

 good catch of Grambiis falsellus, C. pinelliLS, C. warringtonellus, 

 and a lot of others. The day after it was blowing a gale, so I 

 went among the junipers and took 100 Argyresthia aurulentella. 

 On my return home I found several Coleophora oUvaceella out. I 

 bred about 20 out of 30 cases from some palings near Preston. 

 I was not satisfied with the poor supply of birch Nepticidce, so 

 I tried a new place, and found what used to be an open space 

 with young birch and firs, now a dense thicket; on the 



