146 AUGUST. 



I determined to take the windmill for a landmark, and 

 search until I found them. Soon after arriving at the 

 windmill I found some sallows ; here was another 

 point gained there w r ere the sallows, but where were 

 the larvae that could be collected by bushels ? I could 

 see none (I was a little early for the glut, it being early 

 in the month) ; at last, after a great deal of searching, 

 I found a folded leaf opened it, found it empty; 

 opened another, the same success ; so on with another 

 and another until I had opened several, until at last I 

 found a folded leaf with a larva in it hurrah) a prize ! 

 I was about to transfer him to my capacious tin, when 

 lo, with a twist and a wriggle, he quitted the leaf and 

 dropped to the ground. Could anybody have seen me 

 then, no doubt he would have noticed my jaw drop 

 wonderfully : but never give up ; where there is one, 

 there usually are more ; so I persevered, and before 

 dark I had, I dare say, three or four dozen Peronea 

 larvae ! 



A week after this I again visited the common on the 

 same errand, and was busily engaged in collecting 

 larvae of Peronea. Opening every leaf in order to see 

 if there was anything in it, by which means I not only 

 lost a great deal of time, but a great many larvae, 

 besides being kept continually employed in watching 

 those I had got in the box, to prevent their crawling 

 out, as I had disturbed their privacy, when suddenly a 

 voice behind me shouted " Hilloa, Dick ! what are 

 you about 1" when, on turning round, I beheld an 

 Entomological friend, w T ho was bent on the same 

 errand. " Collecting Peronea larvae," said I. " Col- 

 lecting Peronea larvae ! and is that the way you collect 



