MARCH. 39 



what is that that has fallen as if dead into your net ? 

 What a beautiful creature ! This is Trachea piniperda ; 

 its favourite resting-place is the trunks of the pines, 

 but it sometimes (especially if the weather is sharp) 

 nestles in the branches ; while close to the ground, on 

 the trunks of the trees, the pretty Er log aster lanestris 

 may be found ; and in the hedges at Sanderstead, near 

 the Railway Arches, the handsome and scarce Lobo- 

 phora polycommaria may be obtained by beating. 



If we visit the sallow blossoms in the evening with 

 a lantern, we shall find them frequented by Tcenio- 

 campa rubricosa, miniosa and cruda, accompanied by 

 the resuscitated Depressarice arenella y ocellana and 

 applana. 



On the trunks of trees, palings, &c., we shall find, 

 pressed almost flat to their surface, Chimabacche 

 Fayella, together with his short-winged female, while 

 by beating the oaks the pretty little Heusimene jftm- 

 briana may be obtained, and if the day be bright we 

 shall see the males of Dasystoma Salicella flying in 

 the sunshine ; those insects, the larvae of which have 

 fed upon birch or oak, have a much more rosy ap- 

 pearance than those whose larvae have fed upon sallow, 

 the latter being much blacker ; their semi-apterous 

 females may be found upon the trunks of the trees. 



In houses we shall find that pest of the housewife, 

 Tinea pellionella, the larva of which commits such 

 ravages among her stores of woollens and furs, to- 

 gether with the pretty white-shouldered Endrosis fe- 

 nestrella, which from its conspicuous appearance and 

 locality has been branded as the real depredator. 

 " Thus justice, while she works at crimes, 

 Stumbles on innocence sometimes." 



