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taken in the previous years." In the next VoL, p. 297, tlie same 

 gentleman records the capture of two more (1885) and mentions ''a 

 gentleman from London staying at Dawlish has succeeded in taking 

 two others," and at p. 317, Mr. Jager nientions that lie captured one 

 and saw one. He " hunted the ground in company witli a friend 

 from London," but does not mention any capture made by his friend, 

 it may be two as mentioned by Mr. Brooks. Vol. XIX., p. 250. Mr. 

 Jager records seven specimens from Starcross, Dawlish and 

 Teignmouth, the first capture took place on the igth August, which 

 escaped while trying to box it out of his net (1886). Vol. XX., p. 230. 

 Mr. Kane mentions the capture of one at Exeter, 15th August, 1887, 

 and at page 274, Mr. Jager favours us with a note of his captures, 

 six, and two sent him after leaving Dawlish, Vol. XXL, p. 258. Mr. 

 x^uld records the capture of one at Dawlish, and at page 274, Mr. 

 Cook, of three specimens ( 1 888). In iH8g we have none recorded; 

 1890 is also passed over without a notice. In 1891, Major General 

 Garden captured seventeen in five days at Teignmouth ; the same 

 year the vicar of a small parish within the Hera radius captured and 

 had brought to him over thirty specimens, most of them in a most 

 dilapidated condition, as many were caught by village lads and 

 carried in their hands a mile or more to the parson, but perhaps after 

 all they would not have been served so badly as one I saw this year 

 wl'iich had been cramnjed into a small pill-box by a boy, the said box 

 constructed onl}^ to carry six pills. This reminds me that a young 

 gentleman, who is now a medical student, when a lad attending 

 school made his first capture of Hera in the Starcross district, twelve 

 or thirteen years ago, the exact date not recorded. A few observa- 

 tions for 1892, after the above may be of interest also. On the 8th 

 August, Mr. Jager made his first captures, namely, two specimens, 

 and according to promise duly advised me of the same, unfortunately, 

 1 could not leave home just then, but I joined him on the i2tli. That 

 day we did not make any captures ; on the 13th, Mr. Jager captured 

 two and I netted one, and saw two others, after beating the hedges, 

 both sides of lanes up one and down another until we must have 

 walked over ten miles. The following day the proceeding was 

 repeated over new ground, and tliree specimens only were disco\-ered, 

 of which we caught one, this was very near Exeter. The next day 

 we started again and this time without a single capture, but wc; saw 

 a lad who had one in good condition safely resting in his killing 

 bottle. The w^eather during the four days was very boisterous, willi 

 a strong inclination to rain, and little sun at very short m!(M-\ ;ils. 

 The result of our L'd)our was therefore so \ery inacKMpiale ihal I 

 returned home. jMr. Jiiger remained in \\\v loc:ilit\- lor sonu^ da)"s 

 after, his total captures amcninted to Iwc^hc ol wliich onlx oiu; could 



