126 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
narrow grass, which grew only under the shelter of some 
juniper bushes in a dry stony field; but E. serricornella was 
unobtainable: probably it is a late feeder, as it does not 
appear before July. 
This was the result of our holiday; and in the coming 
months no doubt we shall be furnished with ample material 
for observation and reflection, and less usefully with perfect 
insects for the setting-board. 
The collector should regard the net as useful only when it 
directs him to the locality of an insect, and gives a clew to 
the discovery of its larva; and if he should discard it for an 
entire season, possibly on looking over the year’s work, 
during the inaction of winter, he would find his cabinet 
certainly no poorer, and his mind replenished with an 
amount of information no mere collecting can afford. 
J. H. THRELFALL. 
4, East Cliff, Preston. 
Lepidoptera collected at Great Malvern in 1875. 
By Mr. W. Epwarps. 
April 24th.—Argiolus, T. Rubi, Napi, Rape, Brassice, 
and Cardamines. 
May 29th.—Sinapis (scarce), Geryon, Ulmata, Euphor- 
biata, Omicronaria, Punctaria, Adustata, Marginata, Sylvanus, 
Alveolus, and Tages. 
May 30th.—Started for Sinapis; very scarce to former 
years; captured twenty-nine after walking twelve miles or 
more. 
May 31st.—Tried sugar; insects abundant. Amongst my 
captures were Ocularis, W. Latinum, Batis, Plecta, Rurea, 
Thalassina, and Prasinana; while Trilinea and Strigilis were 
swarming. Wind north-east. 
June 4th.—Insects at sugar; one fine male Alni taken by 
a friend. My fresh captures were A. Ligustri, Bella, 
Rumicis; snails, beetles, and centipedes, a pest. Wind 
north-west. 
June 7(h.—Fresh captures: one Alni; Anceps, Megace- 
phala, L. Comma, Furuncula, and Fasciuncula. Wind 
south-west, and muggy. 
June 8th.— Tried for Alni in same woods, without success. 
