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bloom. We quite thought we might take something new, or 
at least of value at these sallows; but nothing beyond those 
mentioned in this list was seen. At about two o’clock in the 
morning we had to beat a retreat on account of the steady 
rain, which began to knock off the satiated moths from the 
bloom. Our troubles did not end there, for when we got to 
Miss Campbell’s hospitable house it by no means meant 
shelter. Whether it is that Highland lairds think their 
tenants so hardy that little comfort does for them, I know 
not; but this I do know, that we had to sleep with umbrellas 
over our bed, which only concentrated the drippings, instead 
of all being evenly wet. 
The locality where we found these sallows (Salix caprea 
var. sphacelata) in flower was at an altitude of upwards of 
1400 feet, in a cold wet bog. There is no cultivated land 
within six or eight miles; and, excepting this shepherd’s 
cottage, no other house within the same distance. 
On our return we examined the place by daylight, but 
found nothing worth taking—further than a series of Ypsipetes 
ruberata. 
I have worked the neighbourhood before and since, but 
always left it with the same feeling of depression; possibly 
this was caused by want of success in capturing anything 
rare, added to the dreary solitude. The shepherd’s sister 
told me that during winter she seldom went further than a 
few hundred yards from the cottage. 
JoHN T. CARRINGTON. 
September 13, 1876. 
Entomological Notes, Captures, &c. 
Entomology in Cornwall.—Few counties seem to have 
received so little attention from entomologists as Cornwall ; 
this is the more remarkable, as the varieties of soil and 
numerous genera of plants found there make it a likely resort 
of many of our rarer Lepidoptera. 
Being at St. Austell on a visit, in August last, I used the 
net in the immediate neighbourhood; without anything like 
hard work | obtained the following result :—Colias Edusa in 
large numbers, the proportion being one female to about five 
males; the colour of the males seems to vary more than those 
