THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
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OBSERVATIONS. 
Extirpation op Insects. 
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Like Mr. Greene, I plead guilty 
to the charge of having entirely ex- 
tirpated at least one species in one 
locality, in the following manner. JV. 
Ziczac is not a common species near 
here. On Simmonswood Moss, far 
removed from hedges or trees, grow 
a few small sallows, originally six or 
eight, but increased to about thirty, 
by my putting cuttings here and there, 
as I walked along, four years ago. 
Mr. Johnson and I took about fifty 
larvae of Ziczac off these small bushes. 1 
We were rather late for them but, 
next year, we both tried to go early 
enough. The Sergeant beat me by a 
day or two. Mr. "Wilkinson went 
with me, and I got seventeen larvae, 
being all I could find. Since then no 
Ziczac can be found there. But, to 
come nearer to Minos, twenty years 
ago, the "Wallasey sand hills, were 
red with A. Filipendula and E. 
Jacobcece. The South Lancashire 
picture makers then visited the hills 
annually, filling large boxes with 
pupae and imagos, as they now visit 
Southport and Blackpool. What is 
the result ? The hills remain the same, 
the food is in profusion, and yet, the 
person who has failed to extirpate 
Minos could not fill a Minos box, to 
save his entomological reputation, and 
that ought to be valuable. A few 
remain to us to enliven the fine, 
sandy waste, and I do hope they will 
be let alone for a season or two, to 
recover themselves. 
Space forbids, or I could give a 
long series of illustrations, but let one 
more suffice. A few years ago I spent 
much money and time in discovering 
the exact whereabouts and food of 
JBotys terrealis, two specimens having 
been taken by my friends Messrs 
Diggles and Warrington, when cros- 
sing a mountain in Denbighshire. 
Eventually we found it on the rocky 
face of a limestone crag, and that its 
food was the Golden Rod flowers, 
growing there. Well, we were ex- 
ultant. All our friends were supplied 
as far as our captures went. My own 
set was given away, because I thought 
I could re-supply them, but who can 
describe the disappointment I felt, on 
going up the mountain face, one day, 
when I found every flower of Grolden 
Rod gone, just when the larva; should 
have been feeding ? I 6aid, if there 
are no plants of Golden Rod on the 
lower rocks terrealis is gone for ever. 
Eortunately the plant grew on another 
face of rocks (inaccessible) not far 
away, and though there were no 
terrealis on ‘Pen corrawen,’ next 
season, they have now re-established 
themselves, though in limited num- 
bers. The man who destroyed the 
flowers that he might possess all the 
terrealis certainly believed in ex- 
