10 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Solenohia iriquetrella : not a single male came out; nothing 

 but apterous females. On the heaths scarcely a living insect; 

 even the hawking Diplera, Etnpis borealis, was either like 

 what it likes to kill — nil, or it was not worth turning out 

 to look for food ; and the species was fully a month late in 

 appearing. There were no emeralds, and only very few Geo- 

 meira larvae; A.strigillaria was the chief one. May passed 

 away without much being done. I had been to Windermere 

 during the month several times, and there was little or 

 nothing to be seen; the only insects I got on May 28th 

 were M. salopiella, I. Zinckenella, and one /. teiiuicornella. 

 This is a new locality for these species ; and the place 

 where I took them is in a wood close to Windermere 

 Station. I may note now for June, whilst I am on this 

 locality, that Microptenjx Mausuetella w^as very scarce. 

 The only species tolerably common was M. Alliouella among 

 the honeysuckle, and Capua ochraceanawas pretty plentiful ; 

 but it was really dejecting to see no liie around. Scarcely 

 a wood wren to utler its plaintive and 'tremulous note. As to 

 beating, a chip-axe {Euryme)te dolobraria) tumbled down 

 like a dead leal'; and an odd Cidaria conjlala, and now and 

 then an Argyinns Euphrosyne was to be seen ; so off 1 set to 

 look for the field where AlHs and I used to take Coleophora 

 deauratella. Here another blank : the nice stream that ran 

 through the fields had been drained off, and it was now a 

 potato field ; another locality gone. Now into the woods 

 again for larvaB of Argyresthia Andereggiella : they, like 

 other things, were a poor crop, and still worse to breed. Two 

 or three more visits yielded little worth note; only Tiuagma 

 resp/endella, EvpitJiecia plumbeolafa among the Melam- 

 pyrum, and on the birch I took Coleophora Wilkinnone.Ua 

 and Crypiohlahes bistrigella, and an odd specimen each of 

 Phoxopteryx diminuiana and Stiymonoia punclicostana. 1 

 must close June, so far as Windermere is concerned, and go 

 back to another region. 



Early in June Mr. Tiirelfall and I paid a visit to Heysham, 

 below Morecombe, to look for larvae ; but the wind blew a 

 gale, and on the high exposed cliffs we had to lie down to 

 shelter the plants we were examining, and then the cold was 

 miserable. On Genista tincloria we got a lot of larvae of 

 Anarsia genistella : from specimens bred we conclude they 

 are identical with A. spartiella ; they are darker than 

 A. spartiella, which we attribute to tiie plant being more 

 succident than the common broom. The Depressaria 



