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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



radicis, on root 



„ albopunctata, on bud 

 In Summer. 

 Neuroterus ostreus, on leaf 

 Spathegaster tricolor ,, 

 Andricus noduli, on twig 

 Cynips Kolleri, on bud 

 Dryophanta scutellaris, on leaf 



,, longiventris ,, 



,, divisa ,, 



,, agama ,, 



,, disticha ,, 

 Aphilothrix gemmae, on bud 



,, coUaris ,, 



,, callidoma ,, 



,, solitaria ,, 



In Autumn. 

 Biorhiza renum, on leaf 

 Neuroterus numismatis ,, 



,, lenticularis ,, 



,, fumipennis ,, 



,, lasviusculus 

 Andricus glandium, on acorn, on Q. cerris 

 only 



Aphilothrix glandulse, on bud 

 ,, globuli ,, 



,, autumnalis 



1882. 



By S. L. MosLEY. 



At the close of a year every entomologist 

 is anxious to know what his brothers of the 

 net have been doing, and is disappointed if 

 they neglect to give the required informa- 

 tion, but he is apt to forget that they are 

 quite as anxious to know what he has been 

 doing. All are desirous to hear, but forget 

 to speak, and the oonsequence is, that com- 

 paratively few know what others have done. 

 I am now going to give an account of 

 myself, or rather what I have done during 

 the past year, and hope that others will 

 adopt a similar course, and let us have a 

 general report. 



The accounts that have reached us from 

 different parts of the country have been of 

 a doleful character. No insects ! No insects ! ! 

 This has been the cry from every quarter 

 where any cry has been heard. But these 

 reports have all come frcm Lepidopterists, 

 who having no game to pursue have had to 

 shut up their books and go to sleep for a 

 time. Those who have gone in for "all 

 orders," or for more orders than one have 

 shared better : for my own part I have 

 always been able to keep my setting boards 

 full of either one thing or another. 



My first collecting expedition was to the 

 coast about Liverpool, in April, of which I 

 gave an account (Y. N., Vol. Ill, p. ), and 

 while upon this expedition one rarity fell to 

 my fellow collector Dr. J. W. Ellis, which 

 was reported last month. 



Early in July I undertook another 

 expedition, with the intention of proceeding 

 to Abbott's Wood in Sussex, and in order to 

 make a better bag I resolved upon making 

 several calls upon the way, the first im- 

 portant one being at Wicken Fen. This 

 piece of land is a flat marshy swamp, with 

 dykes and ditches in all directions, and the 

 heavy rain which had been falling for some 

 weeks, and which fell when arrived at 

 Loham station, did not improve the road 

 for travelling, or the fen for collecting. 

 We waited at the station until the rain had 

 somewhat abated, and then proceeded on a 

 trudge over three miles of slippery clay 

 fields — or a mixture of something worse 

 than clay — to the little village of Wicken. 

 Three days stay here resulted in very little, 

 for the rain came down in torrents nearly 

 the whole of the time, yet I was on the fen 

 daily, and spent two nights upon it with 

 a big lamp hoisted on the top of a ten feet 

 pole, and waited patiently up to the ankles 

 in water for the moths to come. Two or 

 three times when pursuing some suspected 

 rarity, the chase was suddenly determined 

 by my running into a ditch, which was hid 



