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object of my visit on this occasion, and the 

 doorkeeper making a remark as to my short 

 stay, I told him my errand, and I 

 then found there was a collection in one 

 of the private rooms, and there I saw what 

 I had come for. On going to the Brushes 

 in August, some years ago, I found the 

 species, taking about thirty specimens on a 

 stone wall, but was surprised to find them 

 such different looking creatures when at rest 

 to what I had seen in the cabinet at the 

 museum. They rest in a peculiar manner 

 — head quite close to the stone, tree, branchy 

 &c. ; wings rolled round the body : in fact, 

 the insect almost stands on its head, as it 

 were, and looks very much like a broken 

 twig when at rest on the trees, and not 

 unlike the grouse droppings when it rests 

 on the stone walls. It seems strange that I 

 have never seen a single specimen on the 

 wall before named since my first acquaint- 

 ance with Solidaginis. The species seems to 

 have been lost to collectors for some years 

 at the Brushes and further on the moors 

 also, but I have taken a few at the Brushes 

 the last two seasons. 



I think a further list of the Lepidoptera 

 occurring at the Brushes will be looked over 

 with interest by some of your young readers; 

 but I must say that the locality has been 

 much worse of late years than when I first 

 became acquainted with it, several of the 

 species that used to occur freely, are now 

 seldom met with. 



Of the butterflies there are none particu- 

 lar to the place. An occasional "white" 

 or two, a V. urtica, Alalanta, a.nd Car dui, and 

 rarely a stray A . aglaia, are all I can think 

 of. I myself have met with the following 

 species of moths : — 

 M. stellatarum M. margaritata 



C. plantaginis C. elinguaria 



A. fuliginosa P. pilosaria 

 O. antiqua B. repandata 



B. quercus (callunse) B. rhomboidaria 

 S. carpini A. fumata 



S. belgiaria 

 F. atomaria 

 H. progemmaria 

 C. boreata 

 O. dilutata 

 O. filigrammaria 

 L. didymata 

 L. multistrigaria 

 L. csesiata 

 L. salicata 

 E. nanata 

 Y. elutata 

 M. galliata 

 C. ferrugata 

 C. immanata 

 C. testata 

 C. populata 

 T. chaerophyllata 

 N. camelina 

 C. flavicornis 

 A. menyanthidis 

 X. rurea 

 C. graminis 

 L. testacea 

 A. porphyrea 

 T. fimbria 

 T. pronuba 

 T. rubricosa 

 O. suspecta 

 C. trapezina 

 P. Chi 

 H. adusta 



H. glauca 

 C. solidaginis 

 C. exoleta 

 A. myrtilli 

 r. gamma 

 C. Haworthii 

 A. rufina 



A. suffusa 



B. perla 



N. dromedarius 

 P. meticulosa 



H. pisi 



A. gerningana 

 A. prodromana 

 E. flammeana 



C. ustomaculana 

 P. lepidana 



P. monicolana 

 T. viridana 

 P. myrtillana 

 P. Caledoniana 

 P. sauciana 

 P. solandriana 

 E. gelatella 



C. phryganella 

 P. roboricolella 



D. sulphurella 

 P. bisostella 



I. masculella 

 C. bitisella 

 L. bacciniella 

 N. Weaver i 



and numerous other micros, the names of 

 which I never knew. 



The following species I have not met with, 

 but have read or heard of them having 

 occurred at the Brushes : — 

 D. templi (i) N. glareosa 



P. leucophaea (i) N. Dahlii 

 P. interrogationis A. strigillaria 

 H. rectilinea P. bractea 



A. aprilina C. ridens 



H. velleda H. fimbriana 



H. cespitalis Nep. myrtillela 



B. rubi Arg. serariella 

 During the last few years I have done a 



