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this extremely interesting PempeUa to our lists. On the 

 29th of July last Mr. Davis spent an hour on the Isle of 

 Wight. Fortunately, the Aveather was so inclement that 

 Mr. Davis was obliged to take shelter, and, thus deprived of 

 his collecting, or what is commonly considered collecting, 

 had nothing left to him but to "look about.'' Now this same 

 "looking about" is (as I have endeavoured to impress upon 

 the young collector in the pages of my Guide) one of the 

 most successful methods of collecting. Whilst so engaged, 

 this grand new PempeUa was discovered. Another advan- 

 tage of the rough weather was, that Mr. Davis could not 

 well stray from the spot where he had made his discovery 

 (^^ the grand secret of successful collecting"), and the conse- 

 quence was that by the time the approaching departure of 

 the boat warned him to hurry off, he had secured fifteen 

 specimens of this fine new British PempeUa. Let us hope 

 that others will profit by so valuable a lesson and take it to 

 heart. Ex uno (Usee omnes. 



PempeUa alhariella is a very local insect abroad, its only 

 recorded habitats being Hungary and "Amasia and Tokat." 



A full description oi PempeUa alhariella will be found 

 in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, vol. viii., p. 163. 



Penthina :metallicana, Hb. {Sericoris irrifjuana, H.-S.) 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. viii., p. 255. 

 In the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (vol. viii., p. 

 255), Mr. N. Cooke of Liscard thus introduces a new 

 Tortrix : " On the 3rd of July, 1870, I took several speci- 

 mens of a Tortrix which I found in abundance on Craig 

 Maige, a lofty mountain near the foot of Loch Laggan in the 

 county of Inverness. They flew up at every step on a ridge 

 about 3,000 feet above the sea. Last autumn I sent five 

 specimens to Mr. Doubleday, and he pronounced them to be 



