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large mansions being built on my Aspidiscana ground. One 

 b}- one mv happy hunting grounds disappear; and we have 

 to go forth again to find " fresh woods and pastures new." 



1 had long wanted to see the larva and case of Coleo- 

 phora melilotella ; so during the first week in September Mv. 

 Threlfall and I set off for Darlington. After a five hours' 

 railway ride we found ourselves at Barnard Castle; and 

 having missed IMr. Sang we strolled into the town, and found 

 a bird-stuffer who had only about a score of moths; and how 

 odd that one should be a fine Spliittx convolvuli, and another 

 the handsome little Anesychia fuverella. That evening we 

 put up with Mr. Sang; and next day he took us on to the 

 railway bank and showed us how to find the cases of 

 C. vielilotella^ which are by no means easy to find : it is just 

 like the dark seeds of the Melilotus ; and now and again three 

 cases would be sticking end to end. There we saw several 

 larvae, which Mr. Sang picked up for us to show how they 

 i\t(\^ such as Nepticula cryptella, Gelecliia intaminatella,8i.c. 

 On the day following we all three went to Highforce, 

 Middleton-in-Teesdale, some twenty-five miles from Dar- 

 lington, and found a number of larvae of Coleophora Wil- 

 kinsonella and C. paripennella on the birch. The rains had 

 beaten everything down. We went specially to look lor the 

 xAxeAciolepia beiuleiella, hut it was no use; though every 

 little moth we beat out was soon caught. The best were 

 Mixodia Ratzhuryhiana, some in fine condition. These 

 ought to have been out in July. 



We parted with Mr. Sang at Barnard Castle, having spent 

 three days greatly to our advantage in knowledge. Nothing 

 surprised me more than to see that such an unentomo- 

 logical looking district had yielded so many novelties as Mr. 

 Sang had turned u|), such as Gelecliia solutella (a Rannoch 

 species) and Elacliista ptiliidui/i (a Norfolk fen species); but 

 it is the old adage vvlii< h stand-< as good as ever, — " He who 

 works will win." 



DESCRIPTIONS OF OAK-GALLS. 

 Translntod from Dr. G. L. Mayu's ' Die Mitteleuropaisrhen Eicliengalloii.' 



By Edward A. Fitch. 



(Conliuuod from p. 147.) 



89. Cynlps capui-mednsa', iJart. — 'J'his remarkably fine 

 gall first appears wiih the opening of the fruit buds in May. 

 In the neighbourhood of Vienna it occurs in such numlxrs 



