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high. The best plan is to make use of a net with a long stick to 

 it, and to place the net gently over the insect as soon as it is 

 observed at rest, when it will rise, and may easily be captured. 

 Once on the wing, it is next to impossible to follow it through the 

 undergrowth of its natural habitat. 



The Argent-and-Sable Moth {Melanippe hastata) ; The Small 

 Argent and-Sable Moth (M. tristata). Both of these locally rare 

 moths I have taken in our neighbourhood. I have them from 

 Orton, Hethersgill, and Gelt Woods. 



M. tristata I took in Gelt Woods in July, 1881, while collecting 

 there with Mrs. Routledge of Stone House, and other members of 

 this Society. The flight of this little moth is very like that of the 

 Twin Spot ; but M. tristata settles only on the branches of trees 

 instead of on the grass as the other insect does. They are very 

 strong on the wing, and in this respect resemble the Noctuas 

 rather than the group they really belong to. The Wood Carpet 

 {M. rivata) also occurs with M. hastata and M. tristata at Orton 

 and at Gelt. 



The Common Carpet (M. suhtristata) ; The Silver Ground 

 Carpet {M. montanta) ; The Galium Carpet {M. galiata) ; The 

 Garden Carpet {M. Jluctuata); The Royal Mantle {Anticlea 

 sinuata); The Streamer (A. derivata); The Flame Carpet {Coremia 

 propugnata) ; The Tissue (Scotosia duhitata) ; The Streak (Chesias 

 spartiata), and many other Geometers I have not named occur here. 

 Collectors from other parts of England agree with me in thinking 

 that, if the Butterflies are not as well represented here as they are 

 in other parts of England, the Moths — and especially the Geometers 

 — are better represented here than in perhaps any other locality in 

 the British Islands. 



In concluding this part of my paper, I would suggest that it 

 would be a good plan to have a book kept at the Museum wherein 

 should be recorded opposite the names of our Lepidoptera, the 

 date and locality of each capture, so that collectors in search of a 

 particular insect might know when and where to go in order best 

 to attain the object desired. 



