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insects as Dasystoraa salicella, Micropteryx purpurella and 

 M. unimaculella, Depressavia pallorella and D. capreolella, 

 Butalis incongruclla, Gracillaria phasianipennella and G. 

 clongella, with others of less note. 



My own attention was to a great extent confined to larvae, 

 and the following fell to our united efforts : — Coccyx hyrci- 

 niana was very plentiful in spruce-firs, in the same plantations 

 as Coleophora laricella in the larches; the latter so abundant 

 that almost every bursting shoot was whitened by its occu- 

 pants. The oxeyes along every road were twisted, by Dicro- 

 rampha acuminalana and D. consortana ; but they are yet too 

 young to take, except for special observation. Lampronia 

 pra;latella was in some quantity under wild strawberry-leaves 

 near the plantation ; it appears very local, as, although its 

 food-plant occurs plentifully all over the district, we only 

 found it in a space of perhaps one hundred yards. Laverna 

 miscella, mining the Helianthemum, was too young; but 

 Depressaria assimilella, in united broom-twigs, was full 

 grown, and no doubt would have left in a few days. Rumex 

 acetosella yielded its usual variety of Gelechia ; the larva of 

 G. tenebrella is certainly a most curious one, in no respect 

 like any other of its family that I have seen, perhaps on 

 account of its habit of feeding internally in the stems (the 

 larva is stout, rosy red, and inactive ; perhaps it may turn 

 out something else). On the bank Anthyllis shoots betrayed 

 the presence of Gelechia anthyllidella by their bleached 

 appearance, although the surrounding vegetation still retained 

 its wintry apjiearance. Whilst collecting Ocnerostoma pinia- 

 riella in the leaves of Scotch fir, we were surprised by finding 

 a larva drawing the same together in a web, which is 

 supposed to be Cedestis farinalella or C. gysselinella. Can 

 anyone oblige by describing the difference between the 

 habits of these larvae ? Selecting the warmest night, we 

 obtained — by beating heather, Myrica gale, and cranberry, 

 into an umbrella — various larvee of Noctuoe, Geometridae, and 

 ColeophoraD, including C. pyrrhulipennella and C.juncico- 

 lella, the latter in abundance. Instead of wasting time by 

 endeavouring to select these on the spot, we tumbled the 

 beatings into a sack, and carefully sifted them at home, by 

 which means most extraordinary spiders, bugs, &c., were 

 exposed. Elachista gleichenella was abundant on a stiff^ 



