years he pursued the c macros ' with all the arts of the 

 hunter by day and by night, and also bred them in large 

 numbers, his chief delight certainly from the early 

 'eighties until he ceased to collect was in the Tortrices 

 and Tineae, for which he worked unremittingly on 

 almost every fine evening from spring to autumn. His 

 first butterfly, as has already been mentioned, was a 

 specimen of Colt as Hyale, caught in 1835- ; his last speci- 

 mens were set in July 1916, though after 1908 he caught 

 nothing himself except such specimens as came in his 

 way in the flower-garden, or were rash enough to appear 

 on the window of his < Den ', which was a most effective 

 and constant insect trap ; and in the course of an entomo- 

 logical career of eighty-one years it is no wonder that 

 many good things found their way into his collection. 

 By far the greater part of the collection was of his own 

 catching; he would never take part in 'exchange 3 of 

 the almost commercial character which sometimes pre- 

 vails among entomologists ; but he gave generously to 

 others, and worked hard, long after his own series of 

 some rare or local insect was complete, in order to have 

 plenty for his friends ; and it is right to say that he met 

 with a like generosity from many of his correspondents, 

 from whom he was glad to receive one or two specimens 

 of any species which he had not himself taken, to serve 

 as types. The remoteness of Bloxworth from London 

 and other scientific centres made it difficult for him to 

 compare his own captures with type specimens, and, 



