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field, and sent my stable-boy with a lantern, to ascertain the cause. On his return he 

 told me that he found a cow lying near the palings, and two hedgehogs sucking her. 

 He made the cow get up, but the hedgehogs remained suspended to her till he knocked 

 them off with a stick. He kicked them about in a vain attempt to kill them. I have 

 no reason to doubt the boy's statement : he is an intelligent lad of sixteen, and I have 

 never known him tell a falsehood. The movements of the lantern, which I observed 

 from the house, entirely corresponded with his account." 



Statement of Mr. Buxton's Servant, dated November 9, 1853. — " One evening in 

 the month of July Mr. Buxtou heard a noise in the field. Then I was sent to see 

 what was the matter. I went half way through the field, and then I came to the old 

 cow, which was laying on her left side and moaning, and two big hedgehogs sucking 

 her milk. When they saw my light, then they bit her, and made her get up, then she 

 began to kick at the fence, till I got a stick and knocked them off. I kicked them 

 down the field some distance but did not kill them. They were about twenty minutes 

 from the time Master told me till I got them off. I dare say they would have sucked 

 her dry." 



T. H. Gurney ; Easton, Norfolk, November 11, 1853. 



List of Micro-Lepidoptera taken in the Vicinity of Dublin during the year 1853. — 

 The Hill of Howth is the locality where the following captures were made, unless 

 otherwise expressed : — 

 Tortrix icterana, July. 

 Peronea rufana, hedges by the side of the old road, September and October. 



„ favillaceana, larvae under beech-leaves in a fine web, plantations on the 



hill, July. 

 Spilonota Roborana, larvae on sweet briar (Rosa rubiginosa), May. 

 Sericoris cespitana, littorana, and lacunana, July. 

 Cnephasia musculana, larvae on brambles, Enniskerry, September. 

 Phoxopteryx Lundana, May. 

 Semasia spiniana, August. 

 Coccyx Vacciniana, May. 

 Catoptria Hypericana, Enniskerry, July. 

 Argyrolepia Badiana, July. 

 Cochylis Francillana, July. 

 Eudorea lineolea, larva) under the yellow canker-moss on old blackthorns, June, 



(Zool. 3778). 

 Homceosoma nimbella, larvae in the seeds of wild chamomile, August. 

 Tinea fuscipunctella, in the house, Dollymount. 

 Depressaria atomella, July and August. 



„ assimilella, July. 



„ Alstrcemeriana, gardens at Dollymount, August. 



„ subpropinquella, larvae under leaves of thistles, in a light web, June. 



Gelechia fraternella, larvae on Stellaria uliginosa, May, (Trans. Ent. Soc. n. s. vol. 



ii. p. 77, pi. 10, f. 3). 

 „ Nacviferella, July. 



