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borders I found a large supply of N. continuella, and other birch 

 feeders. 



During the first week in August I was staying at Blackpool ; 

 moths were in abundance. I did not look after the Macros. 

 There were plenty of Choreutes myllerana, and oddly enough on 

 a few yards away there grew the grass from which I took 

 Elachista monticola, on the moors some thirteen miles away. I 

 had seen this patch before, but could find nothing among it. 

 This year I took over 50 of them in fine order, nearly all 

 males. 



During the first week in September I was in Scotland for 

 mines of Butalis torquatella. I still saw some mines with larvae of 

 N. continuella in them ; and on a patch of Potentilla I saw mines 

 of N. terella. I brought all the lot home to take their chance. 

 My sole catch for the visit was a tinful of larval mines in leaves. 

 Ellerslie, Ashton-on-Eibble, September 10, 1888. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL WORK IN COLORADO. 



By T. D. a. CoGKliRELL. 



There were seven of us, conveyed in a waggon and two 

 buckboards — a vehicle unknown in England ; and we went for 

 work and play, either of which might come under the broad 

 definition of pleasure, according to the fancy of the individual. 

 Now the pleasurable work consisted of an investigation of the 

 fauna and flora of a little-known district, scientifically speaking, 

 namely, Eastern Custer County, and the south-western part of 

 Pueblo County adjoining thereto. The ladies paid much attention 

 to botany, and brought home quite a collection of plants ; but 

 the gentlemen, I regret to say, did not woo Dame Nature, their 

 attentions being otherwise occupied ; except one apparently 

 demented individual, whose sole object in life, when he was not 

 writing letters, seemed to be the collecting of " bugs," whence 

 his title, " the bug-hunter." 



The district to be investigated lies in the basin of the Arkansas 

 Eiver, and is watered mainly by the Hardscrabble Creek in 

 Custer Co., and by Ked Creek and the St. Charles Eiver in 

 Pueblo Co. In character, it is hilly and even mountainous, the 



