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females, mostly in very fine condition. From some of these I 
obtained a goodly number of batches of eges, which I forwarded 
to correspondents whom I thought would be likely to rear it, but 
I have only heard from Mr. Gregson as being successful. Some 
years previously I had sent egesand larve to the late Mr. R. S. 
Edleston, of Bowdon, but did not afterwards learn whether he 
succeeded in rearing them. The eggs I procured were deposited 
on the 21st to the 24th of April; those I kept for my own use 
began to hatch on the 15th of May. The larve seemed to 
take to anything I gave them, bilberry, coltsfoot, knotgrass, 
plantain, &c., and many of them made up in June on the colts- 
foot leaves, and in the calico covering of the box, drawing together 
small folds by means of a web. The first imagos, two females, 
appeared on the 18th March following, and to the 8rd of April 
I had some thirty or forty specimens emerged, about two-thirds 
of them being females. From these I got eggs, which began to 
hatch on the 9th May, but owing to continued ill health Ento- 
mology lost its charms, and I had been compelled to break up 
my collection; so the larve were neglected, and consequently 
died. The species was somewhat local. I have since visited the 
locality where I took so many, and was sadly disappointed on 
finding the whole of the enclosure a complete wilderness of black 
burned heath, stems, &c., so the insect will be absent from this 
particular locality for along time; it will be years before it can 
re-establish itself in such numbers as when I last met with it 
there. On the 26th March last (Good Friday) I visited the 
moors to try and find what I thought would be a suitable place 
to meet with the insect during the present month (April), but 
was unsuccessful, the moors were smoking and blazing away in 
a dozen or more places at once, and this continued all through 
the day. The burning of the vegetation of the moors, so 
destructive to insect life in all stages, is done I believe that it 
may spring up again young and fresh to afford nicer food for the 
moorgame (grouse), which birds are a great source of 
annoyance to entomological collectors. They are so very noisy 
if you chance to disturb them, with their loud whirr and plaintive 
ery, sounding like “‘ go back, go back,’ which seems to remind 
you that you are committing serious trespass. ‘The burning of 
the moors periodically, the grouse, and the keepers are great 
hindrances to our plentiful capture of Amphysa prodromana and 
