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dipteron (B. marci) sailing above the heather; and the common 

 CrambidcTB, ah'eady referred to, occurred on the low boggy ground 

 at the foot of the rocks. This weird and lonely spot very likely 

 saw an entomological net that day for the first time. A more 

 desolate lake than that under the curious misnomer of Sweethope 

 can hardly be imagined ; nothing but heaving, heather-clad 

 moors about, with a few dwarf trees at the east end, evidently 

 imported, and dragging on a miserable existence. An east 

 breeze set in, and the only insect that would then condescend to 

 fly was the caddis- fly, Limnophilus luiiatiis. The j)ale lunule on 

 the outer margin of each upper wing, together with the mark- 

 ings generally, are darker and more clearly defined than in our 

 Hatchmere specimens (Delamere Forest). 



At Eothbury, Aug. 26th, the weather was so thoroughly 

 broken up that I saw no insects except L. didymata and a few 

 dark Bri/ophila perla sitting on the stone walls ; and I was glad 

 to get back to my quarters at Scots Gap. In a pine wood hard 

 by I netted, one evening (the 25th) a male Ellopia jjrosapiaria = 

 fasciaria, but the nights throughout my stay were too cold for 

 either sugaring or sport with the net, and I was not sorry to get 

 back to Chester on the 29th, and more within the influence of 

 the Gulf Stream. 



Only once did I meet with an irate gamekeeper. As to my 

 doings with the net, he assured me " naething disturbed game 

 sae much as gannin aboot like that." The only thing I had 

 disturbed was a fox from its lair among the rocks, and, after all, 

 the keeper and I parted on friendly terms with each other. On 

 one or two of the localities named, however, intending visitors 

 will do well to get a permit from the owners. 



I had a good look through the collection of the late Mr. 

 Edward Pearson, of Wallington. The collection, if secured for 

 the benefit of future lepidopterists in the neighbourhood, and 

 placed under care in the adjoining village institute, would form 

 a valuable work of illustration and reference for this part of 

 Northumberland. The following list is a personal note of some 

 of the species in Mr. Pearson's collection which had been taken 

 in the fertile valleys or on the extensive moorlands of the 

 district : — 



ColiaH edum. Occasional at Middleton. 



Eplnepliele hypcranthua. Almost black ; white friuges on all the 

 wings. 



('ceiiu)ii/inji/ia tt/phon = davus. Not such a good form, I thought, as 

 that taken in Delamere Forest (Cheshire) and in North Lancashire. 



[Vanensa antlnpa. A specimen used to be in the collection of Mr. 

 Hedley, of Wallington. Another was nearly captured by Mr. Pearson 

 and others.) 



Acherontia atropoa. Belsay ; South Middleton. 



Sphinx convulvuli. Close Houses; Wallington; Mr. Pearson's garden. 



