82 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
then he can run his eye down—aryiolus, egg described “ Eint.,” so and 
so page ; first capture in Mucking; the date; recorded as feeding on Por- 
tugal laurel, Hnt. Record, etc., etc. A marvellous accumulation of 
references that has taken a life time to gather, and which if published 
would be invaluable to the working entomologist. To the right is a 
large oak cabinet, with pigeon-holes, spaces for his large microscope, 
store-boxes, and all the impedimenta of a working naturalist. A large 
slide cabinet, originally filled with the collection of mites, which Mr, 
Burrows has since presented to the Lister Institute, but now holding his 
wonderful collection of genitalic slides of the Geometers, series of both 
English and Foreign species, to throw light on species ‘represented in 
England by single species, mostly provided by Louis B. Prout. Of 
cabinets there are two, one an upright mahogany one, containing the 
butterflies, hawks, Bombyces, and Noctuee ; the other of black oak, in 
the form of a sideboard, with the Geometers, Plumes, SSeS, and 
Crambides. 
Early in 1916 Mr. Burrows conceived the idea of working his 
garden for Micros, visiting at various times the long fence at the 
bottom of the garden, and also sweeping and netting the various hedges 
and plants. The captured moths thus obtained were killed and pinned 
and sent almost daily tome. These were relaxed and set as they arrived. 
During 1916 about 2000 specimens were obtained, and this year (1917) 
this number has been even exceeded. ‘The result has been the intro- 
duction of one new species to England, viz., Parornix jfinitimella, Zell. 
I should explain that Mr. Burrows took what came to hand, and not 
being a microlepidopterist did not trust himself to discriminate. The 
Tortrices and Tine received most attention, but the boxes sometimes 
contained odd specimens of the Macro-Micros. One of the most inter- 
esting was Nephopterya spissicella, a well known oak feeder, and there- 
fore not expected in that locality; two specimens form a new addition 
to the Mucking list. Homoeosoma sinuella is another species taken, 
including a nice whitish variety. Amongst the Knothorns were two 
very small specimens that bothered us. I submitted them to Mr. 
Thurnall, who said they were new to him. These proved to be very 
late, if not second brood, Huzophera cinerosella, a species Mr. Burrows 
takes in his garden. Achroea grisella, one specimen, is another curi- 
osity, as all the bees of Essex have been exterminated with the Isle of 
Wight disease. 
In the Tortrices we have Tortrix podana, T. rosana, T. ribeana, and 
T. «ylosteana common; a rather well marked form of T. untfasciana, 
which seems to me to perhaps account for the inclusion of Dichelia 
gnomana in our lists. One 7’. forsterana, a couple of Ptycholoma 
lecheana, and some fine forms of Batodes angustiorana represent the 
group Tortrix. The Cnephasias received much attention. In all some 
300 specimens were set, tho four common species being Onephasia sub- 
jectana, O. virgaureana, C. pascuana, and C. longana (ictericana). The 
three former being very variable and running into each other in wing- 
markings so closely as to make it imperative to examine the genitalia 
of each specimen before definitely deciding on the species. In doing 
this I came across one of those monstrosities, of which Mr. Burrows 
has already discovered four specimens, viz.,\Acronicta pst, Hydroecia nictt- 
tans, and two Fumea casta, showing the absence of the valve externally, 
these being unextruded and internal. A full account of this malfor- 
