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the haunt of the ‘ Loghrie-man’ or ‘Leprechaum,’ whose wizened 
face peering out from a mossy stump is said sometimes to startle 
the lonely scallop cutter as he bends to his task in the gloom of 
the wood; and also of an unseen sprite, whose attendant footfall, 
stirring the dead leaves in the autumn gloaming, is wont to mock 
his homeward steps.” Unfortunately Mr. Kane does not record 
the capture of these “ ghosts,” probably because his “ nocturnal 
rambles were generally superintended by two stalwart members 
of the Royal Irish Constabulary.” From this district the writer 
of the record states that he got a large variety of species, and 
some in great numbers; although in reading over the list one 
does not observe anything which one might not expect to find in 
the locality described. 
Appended to the report is a long list of Lepidoptera, with 
remarks added to the names in some instances. These are of 
more or less value, but tend to show that the writer is earnestly, 
though somewhat single-handedly, attempting to unravel the 
secrets of Nature in a little-worked neighbourhood. We must 
certainly congratulate him upon his efforts, which only want the 
ripening influence of further experience to make them of real 
value from a scientific point of view. 
Joun T. CaRRInGToN. 
Royal Aquarium, Westminster, S.W., May, 1883. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL REMINISCENCHS. 
By AN OcTOGENARIAN. 
[Tue following pages are compiled from some rough notes 
supplied by that well-known collector Mr. H. J. Harding, now 
upwards of eighty years of age, who—although vigorous and 
strong in mind, and for his age in physique also—is, we 
regret to say, sadly crippled in means. We are indebted to our 
correspondent Mr. Sydney Webb for obtaining the material from 
Harding. The notes themselves are somewhat disjointed, but the 
following is the substance of them. He himself entitled them, 
‘Recollections of Entomology and Entomologists sixty years ago.”’] 
My first introduction to Entomology took place when I was 
about fifteen years old. J was taken to see a collection, and was 
