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useful to beginners, if not to the older hands. My little contri- 
bution, however, is written for those who are not in that 
happily advanced state, with a desire to help them forward in a 
study that has afforded me many years of genuine pleasure, and 
perhaps save them many a useless journey, which means, in the 
height of the season, considerable loss of valuable time. I have 
experienced many such disappointments from the want of a 
helping hand, and often, from fear of a refusal, have hesitated to 
ask those who perhaps would have given the information cheer- 
fully and with the greatest pleasure. As there are always some in 
that other unenviable state of mind, the practice that has obtained 
of late of entomologists publishing their experiences is much to 
be commended, if only to assist the inexperienced. Even the 
old hand must admit that with all his knowledge there is still a 
deal to learn about habits and localities of various species, and 
occasionally he gets a hint perhaps from the published experiences 
of a beginner that is extremely useful to him, for with all his per- 
severance and industry the ground that can be properly worked 
by any entomologist during an entire season is very limited. 
In the beginning of the month of April, by forcing, as 
described by me in a former volume of the ‘Entomologist,’ 
I bred numbers of the Lithocolletide from larve collected during 
the autumn and winter months, among them Lithocolletis 
lautella, L. cavella, and many others from “Darn”; ZL. tenella 
and Scardia carpinetella from the hornbeams in that part of 
Epping Forest situated opposite the waterworks at Walthamstow. 
During April I bred a fine long series of Coccyx splendidulana 
and a few Heusimene fimbriana from oak-galls collected during 
January. From the salt-marshes at Southend and Canvey 
Island I obtained, during the autumn and winter months, larve 
of Coleophora salinella on Atriplex portulacoides and Sueda 
maritima ; C. tengstroemella on Chenopodium, C. artemisiella on 
Artemisia maritima, Semasia rufillana in seed-heads of Daucus 
carota, and Cochylis francillana and Argyrolepia zephyrana in the 
stems; in heads of teasel the larve of Hupecilia roseana and 
Penthina gentianana were common; I also found larve of @. 
dilucidana in stems of wild parsnip, Gelechia atriplicella and 
G. obsoletella on Atriplex and Chenopodium, and Gymnancycla 
canella on Salsola kali; the cases of C. argentulella were plenti- 
ful on seed-heads of yarrow, and the larva of Dicrorampha 
