70 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



in the bright little village of Lynmouth. After having selected an 

 hotel, I made my way along the Lynn in search of the hemp- 

 agrimony, and noting tv^o or three likely looking places, visited 

 these later in the evening and was rewarded by a specimen of Toxo- 

 canipa cracca. Tliis moth does not settle like a butterfly, with 

 closed upright wings as I expected, but like a Triijhana. I stayed 

 three days longer in hopes of taking additional specimens, but saw 

 no more. Along the Lynn immense quantities of valerian are found, 

 and the cottage-gardens are full of it. It grows along the cliffs in 

 profusion, and this is its natural habitat I conclude. In the day- 

 time the agrimony is a tremendous attraction for all kinds of insects. 

 Macroglossa stellatarum, the Vanessidae, Theclas, and many other 

 lepidopterous insects I saw, as well as Hymenoptera, etc., in quan- 

 tities. 



On leaving Lynmouth I was told I should have a three-mile 

 walk up Countessbury Hill before I could mount my cycle, but by 

 the aid of my 50-inch Pedersen gear I only had to push my machine 

 for about one mile. The road continues undulating for some distance 

 just skirting Exmoor until one reaches Minehead, where the coast is 

 very flat. The Exeter route was now followed, passing the quaint 

 little town of Dunster. The road winds along the valleys, and is 

 practically downhill to Exeter. I stopped a night at Star Cross, but 

 Dawlish Warren, like Deal and so many of our collecting-grounds, is 

 being ruined by golfers; besides this, a railway-station has been 

 built there, and numerous bungalows, so that there is not much 

 ground left from an entomological point of view. 



I did some hedge-beating one afternoon in hopes of disturbing 

 Callimorpha hera, when I heard a voice say, " You wont get hera 

 there, it is too dusty." I turned round and saw a clergyman in a 

 trap with a harmonium ; he informed me that he it was who first 

 discovered the species there, but, he said, " hera is not a coast 

 insect, it is a garden insect," and added, " you would be more likely to 

 find it in the lanes at the back, away from the main road." This I 

 tried, but was not fortunate enough to get a specimen ; the only 

 thing I netted was a dwarf Pieris rapos, exactly one inch across the 

 wings. Feeling a bit sick of seeing my setting-boards so empty 

 I decided to look up my friend Mr. Walker, of Torquay ; this I did, 

 and he took me to his spot for Leucania putrescens ; we got a dozen 

 each the same night. 



I was informed that it was no use trying to catch this insect 

 before 10 p.m. ; if netted they are so wild that they soon become 

 useless as specimens. Mr. Walker put me up to a dodge that was 

 entirely new to me. When there are no posts or suitable places to 

 treacle, cut a number of flower-heads of the wild carrot, treacle 

 these and place them about in hedges and other convenient places. 



We went to a fen out Newton Abbot way one night, but owing 

 to a puncture I was not able to be there in time to sugar. T. pasti- 

 num is found there ; the only thing at all out of the common which 

 I got was Noctua itmhrosa. Leaving Torquay, the next day I cycled 

 to Exeter and trained home, after a very enjoyable twenty-three days, 

 having seen perhaps the best of Cornwall and Devon. 



I may say my " drying-house " travelled over the two hundred 



