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peculiar to such localities. Above all, it is one of those few 
delightful spots where the enthusiastic entomologist can pursue 
his favourite study to his extreme satisfaction, without having a 
wondering crowd gathered round him, expressing sympathy for 
the ‘‘puir deluded body.” It is a country of few inhabitants, 
which, perhaps, can be accounted for by the number of roofless 
cottages one notices all around, the scenes of evictions in times 
past. 
On the day of my arrival I found extremely comfortable 
lodgings in the house of the schoolmaster, and in the evening I 
took a short walk to see what insects were to be found. I netted 
some nice specimens of Acidalia fumata, Metrocampa margaritata, 
Cabera pusaria, Larentia viridaria (pectinitaria), and a few 
Micros, but as the evening was not very favourable, I deferred 
operations until the following day. I was advised to try a large 
moor, a short distance from the schoolhouse, and on visiting the 
place was delighted to find insects flitting about in great 
abundance. I never before saw so many butterflies frequenting 
one spot; they were literally in hundreds. Of course they were 
almost all common species, such as Epinephele ianira, Lycena 
icarus (alexis), Cenonympha pamphilus, but I soon found that 
C. typhon (davus) was also pretty common on the moor, although 
it was rather difficult at first to distinguish it from the large 
specimens of C. pamphilus, which were so plentiful. <Argynnis 
aglaia would occasionally come flitting along the roadside, and 
alight on a thistle-top, thus affording a most tempting prize to 
the eager entomologist, but one not always gained. Once missed, 
it was off and away across the moor. While searching for 
C. typhon I started up a good many specimens of A. fumata from 
amongst the grass, and these I quickly netted. In a ditch which 
bordered the moor I took a number of Hydrocampa nympheata 
and H. stagnata; while in a grassy spot near some trees I netted 
two badly-rubbed specimens of Argynnis selene, at which place, 
doubtless, it was common a short time before. The specimens 
of C. typhon which I captured presented a great variety of colour. 
Some of the specimens were quite as dark as those taken in the 
Yorkshire moors, while others were of the usual Scotch form, 
almost white in colour. ‘There was a complete graduation in 
colour between the two types. Some of the specimens of Lycena 
icarus were very pretty; in some of the females the wings 
