180 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
through on their feeding excursions, and through which they 
re-enter to their little silken abodes for rest and shelter. If 
touched or irritated, they crawl very quietly either backwards or 
forwards, Tortrix-like. When full grown they are about nine- 
tenths of an inch long, of a pale yellowish green colour, the 
head being of a slightly warmer tint of ochreous, and shiny ; 
a few colourless bristly hairs are sparsely dispersed over the 
body, mostly along the spiracles. The larva spins up on a 
leaf, by neatly and compactly folding up a portion of it, in 
shape something like a “turnover-tart;” this it lines with 
silk, making it, doubtless, a secure and water-tight abode, to 
pass the winter, when of course it is detached from the tree, 
—a sport to the winds. ‘The imago appears: about the 20th 
of May following. It is extremely local, and I believe is 
entirely confined in this country to East Sussex, the 
reported capture at Willesden not being universally accepted. 
—W. H. Tugeell; 3, Lewisham Road, Greenwich. 
Entomological Notes, Captures, §c. 
Relaxing Moths and Butterflies.—lf not over-working the 
subject, allow me to offer a few suggestions on the subject of 
relaxing moths and butterflies; as though your other corre- 
spondents say much that is most valuable on the subject, yet 
their various plans may not suit all hunters, especially those 
who have occasionally to trust their apparatus to a mule’s 
back over high mountain-passes; and, notwithstanding all 
that has been written, one great principle, and which it 
appears to me is the principal one, appears to have escaped 
them,—that is, speedy relaxing and speedy drying. I find 
one of the ordinary pocket zinc boxes, corked top and 
bottom, the very best of all relaxing cases: damp both corks 
to saturation, place the box over a gentle heat (never more 
than you can bear your hand upon), and in six hours you 
may relax the most obstinate insect; shake off the dew- 
drops, or paint them off with a very soft brush, or even use 
blotting-paper carefully. Specimens thus relaxed dry in a 
very short space of time, and lose none of their freshness, 
because no putrefaction has time to commence. I have 
lately thus relaxed a large number of specimens sent me 
