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grossulariata , which I hoped to bring through the winter on the 

 chance of getting some varieties. Some nocturnal depredators 

 in search of apples, assuming doubtless that the sleeves were 

 protecting some peculiarly desirable fruit, took the lot, untying 

 the sleeves at the further end, and stripping them off, leaves and 

 all. The marauders were, let us hope, thoroughly sold when 

 they examined the prize they had secured, and so far that was 

 satisfactory ; but I confess, in spite of this sense of satisfaction, I 

 regarded the stripped stems somewhat ruefully. Only on one 

 other occasion that I can remember have my pursuits been 

 interfered with in this way, and that was years ago, when I 

 discovered a band of small boys in Epping Forest going round 

 my sugar with a lantern, and picking off the moths with their 

 fingers. As they were more or less of the London breed, to 

 chase them round my circle (a fairly large one) was neither 

 a very congenial nor a very successful task, and to pack up 

 one's things and go seemed the more discreet part to take. 



(To be continued.) 



COLLECTING LEPIDOPTERA IN THE LAKE DISTRICT 

 IN 1902, 1903, AND IN 1905, 1906. 



By a. H. Foster. 



Being much interested in reading in the 'Entomologist' the 

 experiences of Messrs. P. J. Barraud and A. E. Gibbs while 

 collecting in Cumberland (Entom. xl. p. 67, et seq.), I think 

 perhaps the following notes of my own experiences of the Lepi- 

 doptera of that district may be of interest for comparison. 



In 1902 I went to Westmorland in the middle of July for a 

 fortnight's collecting, the object being to study the butterflies 

 and moths in general, and to search for Erehia epiphron in 

 particular. 



Langdale Pikes seemed from all accounts to offer a likely 

 field for investigation, and accordingly I put up at a wayside 

 inn at Little Langdale village. I was accompanied by a friend 

 who, though not himself a collector, was very keen to help me 

 by catching everything he could. 



The weather was almost perfect the whole of our stay, and 

 our attention was quickly turned to hunting for E. epiphron. 

 We searched the sides and tops of the following mountains — • 

 Wetherlam, Great How, Coniston Old Man, Pike of Blisco, Fair- 

 field, and Dollywaggon Pike, but without seeing the faintest trace 

 of epiphron. Our next attention was turned to Langdale Pikes, 

 where, after getting quite to the top and going down a little on. 

 the other (north) side, we found epiphron in the greatest pro- 



