244 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
After lingering here and there to feast on the splendid crops 
of wild raspberries, we reached Moss No. 2; but the day was 
done as far as netting was concerned, so we crossed into the 
road that leads down on the left to Newton, with a look of regret 
on Moss No. 8 and continuations stretching right away to the 
sky-line. Once in the road we also gave up the idea of 
following the turnpike north from the village, where, among the 
heath and bush and bramble on the hillside only a few yards 
away, Argynnis paphia, A. adippe, and others of the genus find 
their home. A hundred yards or so from the ‘ Derby Arms’ in 
the opposite direction, but on the same Lindale Road and at the 
base of the hilly ground on the wayside, is a rough patch where, 
on another occasion, we took Lycena astrarche in profusion. 
We gave it a quarter of an hour, only to find every butterfly 
quiet and beyond disturbance in the deepening gloom. So we 
retraced our steps to the inn and commenced our journey 
homeward, by the lane we struck into after parting with the 
second moss. Herel have to record our last capture,—a full-fed 
and numerous brood of Vanessa io larve on the way-side nettles, 
—a large proportion of which were duly boxed. After a mile or 
so we left the lane and struck off at a right angle through some 
fields to the embankment guarding the estuary of the River 
Kent. This embankment is the haunt of countless Zygena 
filipendule in the month of June. At Methop Head we crossed 
the estuary by walking along the viaduct to Arnside railway- 
station, and so closed a most enjoyable and eventful day. 
2, George Street, Chester, August 26, 1886. 
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA IN _ 1886. 
By J. B. Hopextnson. 
I raxe the following stray notes from my memory of such 
work as I have done during the past season in my neighbour- 
hood, but I should add that for the past four years I have been 
more or less an invalid, and during March and April last I could 
do no collecting, having then had a narrow escape from visiting 
other “‘ happy hunting grounds.” 
My first captures for the season were some Elachista larve, 
which I expected would produce E. atricomella, but they all 
