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the lane skirting Eedlyuch Park, near Knowle Park Farm (above 

 referred to), and also in a lane on the further side of the park leading 

 from Grodminster to Bruton. At the same season, P. extricata, cognata, 

 and gracilis can be obtained at Godminster Wood, and in Holywater 

 Copse, near Godminster Farm. P. advena is described from a unique 

 specimen captured at Bratton Seymour, near Wincanton, the 31st 

 May, 1892. It was on a hazel leaf beside a surface-well at the side 

 of the lane below the church, just above the last cottage. The over- 

 flow from the well descends by a gutter at the edge of the road, 

 bordered with Selosciadium, Yeronica heccabunga^ &c., dominated by 

 a high wet bank, overgrown with Spircea ulmaria, Juncus communis, 

 and other rank herbage harbouring Pericoma palustris, ocellaris, morula, 

 aud several other Psychodidcs that have already been noticed. 



Ashcot is the station next to Glastonbury, westwards, amidst the 

 turf-moors. On the left of the railway, just before the station, are 

 some old turf -holes, near a wood, that are full of water, in which grow 

 TTtricularia, and other aquatic plants. Pericoma consors resorts to 

 the borders of these pits, and was especially plentiful on a little patch 

 of quaking bog amongst Typha in August. P. ustulata is met with 

 occasionally by ditches in this neighbourhood, but not so commonly as 

 near the sea : it abounds at the moist sandy margins of ditches near 

 the golf-links at Minehead, and can be beaten, with P. caliginosa, out 

 of clumps of coarse grass at the base of the low cliffs at Weymouth^ 

 Dorset, between Sandsfoot Castle and the Nothe, throughout summer 

 aud autumn. 



Dunster is near Minehead, in the west of Somerset. At the exit 



of the town, going towards Dulverton, is a small street to the left, 



with a shallow water-course on one side of it, serving for the relief of 



the mill-conduit and the conveyance of sewage from some cottages, 



and bordered with nettles. Here Pericoma nubila, trivialis, and 



neglecta abound. A few miles further along the Dulverton road, 



below a village named Cutcombe, is a roadside spout near a house 



designated Gilly in the ordnance map. Psyclioda erminea is described 



from a single specimen beaten out of a bush close to the spout on the 



30th September, 1890. Only one other specimen has as yet been 



captured in England, and this (in poor condition) occurred on a 



window at Holwell, Dorset, in December. The species probably 



frequents wet shady banks in the woodlands. Pericoma extricata 



abounds under Salix caprea growing on the miry slopes of the combe 



below Dunkery Ilill Gate, near the outskirts of the deer covert, at an 



elevation of about 1300 ft. 



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