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furnish some useful hints to the practical entomologist, who 

 may be disposed to visit that part of the country. 



We arrived at Exeter in the evening of the 28th of May ; 

 but as we had been travelling twenty-eight hours, and had 

 experienced both wet and cold during the journey, we did not 

 feel disposed to commence operations that evening. 



May 29th. Fine morning ; reconnoitred the ground to the 

 left of the city, in a lane near the Plymouth road : took Ortho- 

 tcenia Hastiana and Adela cuprella in the afternoon ; went 

 to Haldon Hill, to the right of the city ; Brachinus crepitans, 

 and a few species of Harpalus taken: a fine view of the 

 city. 



oOth. Walked on the banks of the river Exe : fished for 

 Dyticidce : Hydroporus depressus and Colymbeies maculatus 

 taken ; in the marsh near the river took Saperda cylindrica. 

 On our return near the canal, Peryphus ogilis and Tachyjius 

 striatus were also taken ; we could find no good entomological 

 ground about Exeter ; therefore we left in the afternoon for 

 Ashburton, a fine ride through Chudleigh, to the right of which 

 place you see the Hayter rocks, that supplied a great por- 

 tion of the granite for the erection of new London Bridge. 

 Ashburton is about twenty miles from Exeter, pleasantly 

 situate amongst hills, of which the Buckland Beacon and the 

 Hazel Rock are the most conspicuous. 



31st. Collected about the Hazel Rocks: they are situated 

 near two miles to the right of Ashburton, upon an ascent ; the 

 whole of the way from the summit of which, we had one of the 

 finest prospects in Devon : there is a fir plantation ; also a 

 small copse near the rocks, where, from the appearance of the 

 place, we anticipated much success : took a new Tortrix, for 

 which we propose the name Myrtillana ; we beat it out of the 

 Vaccinium myrtillus, which was growing in abundance. In 

 returning to Ashburton, from under stones in a running brook, 

 Colymhetes gidtatiis was taken. In the afternoon went to the 

 Old Bridge : collected about the banks of the Dart ; several 

 species of Bemhidiidce taken. 



June 1st. Fine morning; in the fields near the town, from 

 umbelliferous plants, took many Hymenopterous insects. 



2d. The morning rather showery : paid another visit to 

 the Hazel and the Buckland Beacon ; from the former place 

 we captured Ptychopoda fumata, rare, and some more 



