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taining Peronea Hastiana, Peronea Abildgaardana 

 should be my reward. 



This is a fair sample of the usual kind of assistance 

 given by a certain class of collectors to their younger 

 " brethren of the net and pin." Whether it is condu- 

 cive to the spread of science, or the cultivation of friendly 

 feelings towards many of its followers, the reader can 

 form his own conclusions. 



" He who will not give 



Some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, 

 For others' good, is a poor frozen churl." 



And now, kind reader, let us in fancy transport our- 

 selves to some old wood or shady copse, peopled with 

 insect life, or to some sandy coast fringed with the 

 purple thrift (Statice armeria), while its loose and 

 crumbling soil is bound by the roots of the sea plan- 

 tain (Plantago maritimd), among which the variable 

 and uncommon Gelechia instabilella occurs, while its 

 larva mines its leaves or bores into the stem; this 

 larva also feeds on the annual sea-side goose-foot ( Che- 

 nopodium maritimum). But what is that beautiful 

 orange-coloured butterfly careering along so gaily ? 

 that is the clouded-yellow Co/ias Edusa, while that 

 pale yellowish one, with the green tint on the upperside 

 of the underwings, is Colias Hyale, and that sulphur- 

 coloured insect with the pointed wings is Gonepteryx 

 Rhamni. 



Among Helianthemum vulgare, Gelechia sequax 

 occurs ; while among Statice armeria we may perhaps 

 find Gelechia Brizella. 



Along the grassy hedge banks and fields the hand- 

 some Polyommatus Alexis may be seen flitting along, 



