152 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
them in my room, they must be knothorns. So off I went 
with a pillow-slip to fill with more, but when I got a lot in it 
I emptied my bag on the spot and left them, thinking after all they 
could only be some oddly-shaped Viridana spun leaves. Having 
had a seventy-mile trip, and thrown them all away, judge of 
my chagrin in two or three days after on seeing some fine 
Rhodophea consociella and others crippled, sticking on the walls in 
my room. However, I got a fine series of three dozen all right. 
This is the first occurrence so far north that I know of. 
At the same time I found over a hundred Psychoides verhuel- 
lella out; I had brought a lot of hart’s-torgue home with a great 
quantity of cases and larvee.on. This species seems to breed best 
by being kept very dry; in fact, the leaves were all as dry as 
tinder. Before this I always kept them too damp, and hence my 
bad luck in breeding quantities. 
July came with fine hot weather, but I had an attack of 
rheumatism, which made me unable to walk much. However, 
with plenty of time and plenty of pain, I made another visit to 
Arnside, and met with Sericoris cespitana in plenty, and also 
with some Sericoris conchana; both of which were new to the 
district. I looked assiduously for Emmelesia teniata, both at 
Arnside and Grange, but to no purpose. I then set off 
to Windermere, and spent ten days in that locality for Teniata, 
but none put in an appearance until worn, as usual. The weather 
being hot and calm, and no rain at all,—a very unusual thing 
in the Lake District,—gave me better hopes that my rheumatism 
would leave, but not so; my left arm became quite useless, and I 
could only walk a few yards at a time. I took my son with me in 
a boat, and made for a little corner where I had seen some balsam 
(Impatiens) the previous autumn among some old dead sticks and 
nettles. The place was then perfectly dry ; I got a stone to sit 
on, and took a candle to look on the plants for several nights, 
and was fortunate to take seven specimens of Cidaria reticulata 
just as they fluttered up at dusk ; I did not get one after dark. We 
had the grandest of weather, but no moths—only three Hypenodes 
costestrigalis, two or three “‘Snouts” (Hypena proboscidalis) 
and Ypsipetes elutata, and a few Scoparie. Towards the end of 
the month T'eniata was stirring pretty freely, but no good ones; 
so I kept the females to lay eggs, which they did pretty freely. 
The young larve made their appearance in about three weeks 
