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Gonepteryx rhamui seemed to be flying against time over bush and 

 briar ; EpJiyra pendularia was at rest on tlie oaks ; Orgyia pudibumJa 

 was common on the low bushes, especially on Vaccinium myrtillus ; 

 LyccBna argiolus was flying round the holly ; Z. Alexis and AntJiocharis 

 cardawines were plentiful near " Four Oaks" — even these were game 

 to me. Bombyx rubi was flying in profusion ; of Macaria notata I 

 found one at rest on a young oak (this was a rare species, and my 

 capture of it probably induced Mr. John Blakeley to visit Burnt Wood 

 the following season). The males of Lampyris noctiluca visited sugar, 

 also Helupa carahoides abundantly ; SilpjJia thoracica was abundant on 

 carrion ; 6', quadripundata occurred freely on the branches of trees ; 

 Gorymbites capreus and C. pedinicornis flew very abundantly over the 

 meadow-grass just outside the wood. I returned home after being 

 there a week, perfectly satisfied with my visit. 



The following Whit- week Mr. John Blakeley and I went to 

 Burnt Wood, and during the week we added a few more species to my 

 previous list ; among them were the following : — Litlioda mesomelta, 

 L. rubricollis, Tlatypteryx lacertula, F. falcida^ Scotosia undulata, and 

 Macaria notata freely ; Campylus linearis also occurred freely, and we 

 obtained some nice varieties ; Sericosomus brunneus occurred sparingly 

 on birch, and Cryptocephalus lineola on low sallow bushes. We had just 

 found the larvae of Cleora glabraria feeding on a long thread-like lichen 

 growing on oak trees in Bishop's Wood, when the keeper turned us 

 out of the Wood for not asking his permission instead of the wood- 

 ranger's ; this discouraged me from visiting the place for many years, 

 and my success in other localities made me almost forget Burnt Wood. 



In the course of a year or two we had formed a society at Manches- 

 ter for sending its members to explore districts we were unable to visit 

 individually, and about the middle or latter end of June, we sent Mr. 

 Worthington, to Burnt Wood, where he was fortunate in capturing some 

 very good species, viz : — Melitcea Athalia, Argynnis PapJiia, A. Adippe^ 

 Notodonta chaonia^ Ellopia fasdaria, Eupitheda debiliata, Angerona 

 prunaria, Rypena crassalis, and Cleora glabraria. The latter species was 

 obtained, I believe, by beating the branches of oak, the perfect insect 

 falling and simulating death ; it occurred at the " Slather hills,** in 

 Burnt Wood. Many other species were obtained, and consequently 

 other entomologists visited the district. 



Some years after Mr. John Smith was sent to Burnt Wood, and 

 was fortunate in capturing a specimen of Notodonta bicolora, a species 

 with which he was previously unacquainted. I believe it was killed 

 by tobacco-smoke, which had the effect of changing its colour. He 



