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bloom. We quite thought we might take something new, or 

 at least of value at these sallows ; but nothing beyond those 

 mentioned in this list was seen. At about two o'clock in the 

 morning we had to beat a retreat on account of the steady 

 rain, which began to knock off the satiated moths from the 

 bloom. Our troubles did not end there, for when we got to 

 Miss Campbell's hospitable house it by no means meant 

 shelter. VVhether it is that Highland lairds think their 

 tenants so hardy that little comfort does for them, I know 

 not; but this I do know, that we had to sleep with umbrellas 

 over our bed, which only concentrated the drippings, instead 

 of all being evenly wet. 



The locality where we found these sallows (Salix caprea 

 var. sphacelata) in flower was at an altitude of upwards of 

 1400 feet, in a cold wet bog. There is no cultivated land 

 within six or eight miles ; and, excepting this shepherd's 

 cottage, no other house within the same distance. 



On our return we examined the place by daylight, but 

 found nothing worth taking — further than a series of Ypsipetes 

 ruberata. 



I have worked the neighbourhood before and since, but 

 always left it with the same feeling of depression; possibly 

 this was caused by want of success in capturing anything 

 rare, added to the dreary solitude. The shepherd's sister 

 told me that during winter she seldom went further than a 

 few hundred yards from the cottage. 



John T. Carrington. 



September 13, 1876. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8fc. 



Entomology in Cornwall. — Few counties seem to have 

 received so little attention from entomologists as Cornwall ; 

 this is the more remarkable, as the varieties of soil and 

 numerous genera of plants found there make it a likely resort 

 of many of our rarer Lepidoptera. 



Being at St. Austell on a visit, in August last, I used the 

 net in the immediate neighbourhood; without anything like 

 hard work I obtained the following result : — Colias Edusa in 

 large numbers, the proportion being one female to about five 

 males; the colour of the males seems to vary more than those 



