ENTOMOLOGY IN NORTH LANCASHIRE. 943 
the larve of D. vinula. In the larch plantation we chased a 
fritillary — probably Argynnis adippe; but by this time the 
sunshine of the carly morning had given place to a gloomy and 
thundery sky. 
Time, if little else, was on the wing, and we were therefore 
compelled to quicken our pace in the direction of Lindale. 
Here is the ‘Commercial’ Inn, where we lunched. Being on 
the very edge of the Witherslack Mosses no time was lost, so 
crossing the road we struck through a few yards of field into 
ground covered with heath, young birches and Scotch firs. It 
was a warm, sheltered part of the moss, and teemed with insect 
life. Anarta myrtilli scudded about in every direction, but so 
swift and eccentric is the flight of this beautiful insect that of 
the scores we saw, only half a dozen were netted. Nemeophila 
plantaginis and N. russula—the former in splendid condition— 
were also plentiful. Our direction was now north-east and then 
north-west across the first moss, where we still kept on netting 
plantaginis. Canonympha typhon was plentiful enough, but as 
the season for it was nearly over, the specimens captured were 
nearly always rubbed and worn. The whole of the mosses I 
visited in the Morecambe district, however, are evidently rich in 
beautiful varieties of this insect, chiefly dark forms. At intervals 
we came across swarms of L. egon, the blue silvery spots under 
the wings being very distinctly marked—in fact, this lovely little 
butterfly was in splendid condition. Had the afternoon been 
sunny instead of dull, we should have doubtless seen it in 
ereater numbers. Like C. typhon, however, it had to be raised by 
our footsteps from the heath. A fact that particularly struck 
me in connection with C. typhon was, that wherever I found it 
C. pamphilus was absent, and vice versd. If the fact has been 
noticed by readers of the ‘ Kntomologist’ I should like to see an 
explanation. 
Between this moss and the next, a much smaller one, there 
are two or three intervening cornfields. Our course had now 
become north-west, in the direction of the village of Newton, 
where the ‘Derby Arms’ is a well-known resort for entomo- 
logists. We got through the cornfields by skirting the hedges, 
in which buckthorn grows profusely. Along these hedges 
Gonepteryx rhamni will wing his flight in the coming October, 
and again in May. 
