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through on their feeding excursions, and through which they 

 re-enter to their little silken abodes for rest and shelter. If 

 touched or irritated, they crawl very quietly either backwards or 

 forwards, Tortrix-like. When full grown they ai'e about nine- 

 tenths of an inch long, of a pale yellowish green colour, the 

 head being of a slightly warmer tint of ochreous, and shiny ; 

 a few colourless bristly hairs are sparsely dispersed over the 

 body, mostly along the spiracles. The larva spins up on a 

 leaf, by neatly and compactly folding up a portion of it, in 

 shape something like a "turnover-tart;" this it lines with 

 silk, making it, doubtless, a secure and water-tight abode, to 

 pass the winter, when of course it is detached from the tree, 

 — a sport to the winds. The imago appears about the 20lh 

 of May following. It is extremely local, and I believe is 

 entirely confined in this country to East Sussex, the 

 reported capture at Willesden not being universally accepted. 

 — IV. H. Tiigivell ; 3, Lewisham Road, Greenwich. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, S^c. 



Relaxing Moths and Butterflies. — If not over-working the 

 subject, allow me to offer a few suggestions on the subject of 

 relaxing moths and butterflies; as though your other corre- 

 spondents say much that is most valuable on the subject, yet 

 their various plans may not suit all hunters, especially those 

 who have occasionally to trust their apparatus to a mule's 

 back over high mountain-passes ; and, notwithstanding all 

 that has been written, one great principle, and which it 

 appears to me is the principal one, appears to have escaped 

 them, — that is, speedy relaxing and speedy drying. I find 

 one of the ordinary pocket zinc boxes, corked top and 

 bottom, the very best of all relaxing cases: damp both corks 

 to saturation, place the box over a gentle heat (never more 

 than you can bear your hand upon), and in six hours you 

 may relax the most obstinate insect; shake off the dew- 

 drops, or paint them off with a very soft brush, or even use 

 blotting-paper carefully. Specimens thus relaxed dry in a 

 very short space of time, and lose none of their freshness, 

 because no putrefaction has time to commence. I have 

 lately thus relaxed a large number of specimens sent me 



