ENTOMOLOGICAL RAMBLES. WPY7/ 
moths I turned to larva hunting, and I met with some luck. I 
beat a sloe hedge for Hphippiphora signatana, where I ought to 
have had some dozens; nothing but beetles, bugs, and 
Aphides, with a solitary brimstone moth caterpillar, were to be 
found in my umbrella. With so many disheartening journeys, 
I felt glad to have a look round my breeding-room, and here I 
found Nepticula eneofasciella, hitherto a rare species, out in 
plenty—in fact, I set about 150. The same with Ornia Scoticella ; 
this species was rather a disappointment to me, for I have tried 
in vain to breed from Pyrus aria what I thought would be a new 
Lithocolletis, so I went in heavily, making efforts to get a number 
to be certain. I found a tree of Pyrus torminalis as well, with 
four or five larve on a leaf; the result was Scoticella by hundreds. 
Botys terrealis, Hwpithecia virgaureata, Lithocolletis cavella, 
L. torminella, L. lantanella, &c., kept coming out. I was most 
surprised to find a worn-looking specimen of Cidaria reticulata out 
with three wings. In fact, 1878 might be called a “three-winged” 
season, for there were many such in my breeding-cages. Quite a 
number of Hupithecia denotata, HE. subumbrata, Botys terrealis, &ec. 
Nothing pleased me so much as to see the result of my puzzle, viz., 
the larve in the stems of the balsam (Impatiens noli-me-tangere), 
when I was gladdened with the sight of the beautiful new Tortrix, 
Penthina postremana appearing. I bred eleven specimens, both 
sexes being among them. I made ajourney to the spot where I got 
the larve, to see if any moths would turn up, but only got one 
poor specimen, and that was all I got for a journey of over one 
hundred miles. 
Now June comes round, and | think it time to try fresh ground, 
and make my way to Arnside. On some high lands opposite to 
Grange-over-Sands, I find Thera simulata larve, and plenty of 
Eupithecia sobrinata. My main object was to see what could be 
turned up in this district among the Rosa spinosissima. About 
the middle of the month I collected a lot of twisted leaves, 
expecting to find the beautiful Spilonota incarnatana (amaenana), 
and possibly Peronea permutana ; the latter I failed in, but from 
the leaves gathered I bred the rare Jnewrvaria canariella, 
Peronea variegana (all forms), Spilonota roborana, S. incarnatana, 
Pedisca semifuscana (some strange forms), and, oddly enough, 
Gelechia expolitella; these may have crept up from the grass 
beneath, but I noted at the time Gelechia larve. ‘There were 
