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for our coming. However, the night was exceedingly cold and frosty, and 

 we took nothing either at treacle or on the hedges, to which we turned our 

 attention and our lanterns, keeping a good look out for any larva?, but it was 

 in vain, although we had made up our minds for at least larvse of Noctua 

 mnthographa and /estiva. Seeing there was nothing to be had we retired 

 to bed, with nothing to set or look after, except one Diurnea fagella, which 

 Harker took on the way home. Next morning we were up betimes, and 

 found a thick white mist, and all the country covered with beautiful hoar- 

 frost, which, had the morning been clear would have been a magnificent 

 sight ; however, these were minor obstacles, and did not prevent us taking 

 our morning walk if nothing else, so we made our way down the little lane 

 nearly opposite the " Blue-cap," and then across the moss at the bottom, 

 paying very careful attention to the small birch trees on it. We took a few 

 JDiurnea fagella and one Dictyopteryx contaminana, along with a case of 

 Talteporea pseudo-bombycella ; also several cases of a Coleophora on a piece of 

 decaying wood. After breakfast we followed the little stream running from 

 the head of Petty Pool. Mr. Capper had previously told us that here we 

 should be sure to take Tepkrosia biundularia, but judge our disappoint- 

 ment on finding that some person had been riding Mr. Gladstone's hobby, 

 and that large portions of the banks were entirely cleared of trees, while 

 other trees had the mark of doom upon them. However, we examined very 

 diligently what were left, and when we had reached the lake anxiously com- 

 pared notes. Pierce's takings consisted of one Anisopteryx cescularia, and one 

 Hibernia progemmaria, which flew off the tree as he approached, and gave him 

 a full ten minutes hard work, climbing up and down the sloping banks of the 

 stream before he could secure it. Harker had taken one D. fagella, a Tinea 

 which he has not yet succeeded in naming, a number of Coleophora cases on 

 reed heads, probably C, ccespititella, and two on the bark of a fir tree : but 

 where were the T. biundularia ? That was the question. We certainly de- 

 termined in our own minds that there were none on the trees we had exam- 

 ined, and lamented that we had no one like Messrs. Capper, Cooke, or 

 Greening to show us how they used to take them. When we arrived at the 

 lake Pierce said " now this is the place in which Mr. Capper said we ought 

 to see Uuphrosyne." He had scarcely got the words out of his mouth 

 when we both exclaimed " What's that ! " but, although we ran heedless of 

 everything in the shape of holes and bog we lost the butterfly, but agreed 

 that it was no other than Argynnis euphrosyne. We then waited about the 

 spot for a long time hoping it would return, but it did not do so while 

 we were there. Still our chase was not altogether fruitless, for we found 

 some sallows in bloom in the bog at the top of the lake, and, although they 



