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have kept hybernating larvae from moving about, and so greatly 

 increased their chance of escaping destruction, but it also must 

 have kept their enemies at home, and marauding trips after 

 larvae, pupae, and ova could seldom have been undertaken. 

 Whether all will agree with these statements or not, the fact 

 remains that insects, usually extremely scarce, were met with in 

 profusion, whilst others, seldom or never met with in the localities 

 visited, were found in quite respectable numbers. A bag of over 

 1200 insects, amongst which very few could be set down as really 

 common, and the result of three months' collecting, speaks for 

 itself. 



My main interest lies with the "Micros," but good "Macros" 

 were worked for as the opportunity occurred. 



Before May 1st not much had been done save the forcing of 

 a few nice series of Lithocolletis, and, on going to Exmouth on 

 that date, the immediate prospects did not appear very bright. 

 C.festaliella and I. muscalella were the insects most in evidence, 

 whilst on Dawlish Warren, where a fortnight later E. vectisana 

 began to appear, G. velocella was in great numbers. It was a 

 pleasure to note that M. virgata has not quite been exterminated 

 by the squatters and golfers. The capture of a very bright 

 form of E. ciliella on AVoodbury Common, amongst heather and 

 gorse and far removed from any cowslips, was the event most 

 worthy of note. 



Leaving on May 18th for Gloucestershire, a stop of a few 

 days was made en route near Taunton, but nothing much was 

 taken except one S. gallicolana and some cases of T. pseudo- 

 homhycella, which afterwards produced one c? a^^d several ? ? . 

 P. leivenhoekella was noted in numbers on the hills. 



The end of May was spent in the Stroud district of 

 Gloucestershire, wliere the early Tortrices of the locality 

 abounded. Single examples of E. euphorhiana and P. dimidiana, 

 a few C. aspidiscana amongst golden-rod, and three or four 

 specimens of the new D. ceratana were met with, whilst 

 E. satyrata showed some nice forms. On the upper slopes of the 

 hills O.parvidactylus flitted about with A. sahhaumanniana; lower 

 down B. pandalis, M. niurlnata, and E. trigemminata were much 

 in evidence ; in the meadows, amongst plenty of D. plumhagana 

 and D. plumhana, the pretty little A.fihidella was to be taken. 

 E. ciliella was going over, but one patch of tansy was the home 

 of many D. satiirnana. 



June 1st found me at Fareham, in Hampshire, the guest of 

 the Rev. J. E. Tarbat. The following day, a very windy one, 

 produced, beside a couple of A. servilana, one other insect of note 

 in S. commiinana. Anyone who takes a Sciaphila the size of the 

 common S. cJirysantheana at the end of May or the beginning of 

 June should be careful to box it. At that date it will almost 

 certainly be S. conimunana. My six specimens, including one 



