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Leominster; and though I need not here repeat names well 

 known to tiie scientific world, I may, perhaps, be allowed to 

 refer to a few insects I have taken during the few months of 

 my residence at Leominster, confining myself, excepting 

 when otherwise slated, to the year that has just departed. 



During the winter months I obtained, by digging, nearly 

 three hundred pupae. Four Tieniocampas — Stabilis, Instabilis, 

 Golhica, and Cruda, — were very common at the roots of oaks, 

 especially in Berrington Park. Munda, also, occurred 

 sparingly. A few Eupilhecia abbreviata had spun their 

 slight earthen cocoons at the root of a hawthorn tree. 

 Leucophearia had taken up its winter-quarters among tufts 

 of grass. At the foot of a poplar I turned up one Smerinthus 

 Populi, one Prodromaria, two Pilosaria, and three other 

 chrysalids. Betularia and Tiliae were not uncommon at roots 

 of elm. Ocellatus and Pisi were in company at the root of a 

 willow. Oleracea, Pronuba and Orbona occurred among 

 rubbish at the bottom of a garden hedge-row. I also took 

 Tvpica, Augur, Segetum, and the ubiquitous Brassicae. 



VV^ar to the knife with the bobbies, or an occasional tip, — 

 the latter availed me best; so being quietly passed by these 

 officials, and even occasionally assisted by them to a half- 

 torn or rubbed insect, T ventured to brave the wrath or 

 remarks of the passers by, — no friends to, or admirers of, 

 science, — in order to take a few sleeping beauties from the 

 lamp-posts: assuredly we had the best of it, securing a 

 goodly series of rarities; whilst our friends had to endure all 

 the torments, aches, and pains, — not the "pleasures" of 

 imagination, — on making the discovery that I was collecting 

 moths to make into pills and healing draughts for my 

 patients. In February, Rupicapraria, ^scularia, Progera- 

 maria atid Pilosaria were con)mon. In March my best take 

 was Prodromaria, of which I captured four specimens in one 

 night. April, however, was the best month at the lamp- 

 posts. The weather was particularly warm for the season of 

 the year, and consequently many insects had emerged before 

 their time. On the 17th I took Eupilhecia consignata and 

 E. Lariciata; the former I failed to take on the trunks of 

 apple trees, only seeing it once in such a situation, and then 

 missing it, not having my net. On the evenliul 17lh 1 also 

 look Scotosia certata, the first record of this insect, I 



