CAPTURES IN NORTH LANCASHIRE. 107 
I hope this season to reverse the catch, for itis not often that two 
seasons together the same pests appear. 
I next tried light: I used two rooms, with great flaming lights 
in each, with a looking-glass behind the lights. This was by far 
the most successful and easy way of catching moths I experienced. 
I left the lights all night, with a pane of glass broken in each 
room. I generally got up about two in the morning to put the 
lights out, and the moths were sticking all about next day. A 
crumpled-up newspaper was a favourite hiding-place for them. 
When I first began operations, with five lamps in one room, the 
policeman came hurrying up a couple of miles thinking the house 
was on fire. One night I took over forty species: it was rather 
curious to see what persistent comers were Noctua brunnea, 
Miana arcuosa, and Nonagria fulva; the former lasted over two 
months. Besides using the other rooms I opened my bed-room 
window, and left the lamp burning, turning the looking-glass to 
the window: in came Arctia menthastri and A. lubricipeda by 
scores. Next day, when the room was looked round, ‘‘ ermines”’ 
- were sticking about like snow-flakes, but no varieties worth note. 
‘The best species, out of large numbers of moths that came to 
light, were Caradrina alsines, several; Selenia lunaria, Pericalha 
syringaria, Stilbia anomala, Hydrecia nictitans, Luperina testacea, 
Heliophobus popularis, Crocallis elinguaria, Plusia pulchrina, 
P.iota, Notodonta camelina, Epione apiciaria, and Scoparia muralis, 
by the score. The only Plumes that came were Pterophorus 
acanthodactylus, and P. Bertrami. Eupithecia pulchellata, E. sub- 
fulvata, EH. assimilata, &e., turned up. I hope Dicranura bicuspis 
will pay me a visit this season. My apparatus was rather too late 
in being applied last year. 
The grandest little patch of collecting ground in the 
neighbourhood was about fifty yards of rough open ground in 
a young plantation. This place literally swarmed with Micros. 
In the space of ten yards I took over a hundred Phygas bisontella ; 
I fancy the larva feeds in the stem of the knapweed; I could not 
sweep any off plants in flower. I swept the new T’rifurcula palli- 
della and Nemotois minimella, Cemiostoma Wailesella, Depressaria 
atomella (the true species), and many other good species. One 
little wet sheltered corner on the moors yielded me a couple of 
hundred of the hitherto rare Elachista alpinella of Edleston, 
The female of this species is rather the handsomer, 
