108 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
charms? I confess I never could ; though 
I did not want it, yet I found myself 
crashing through the nut-bushes like a 
school-boy, dodging it as it tried to 
dodge me ; once in my net, and I laughed’ 
“Aha, my little beauty! your charms 
merit a belter fate than to be food for 
swallows, so I ’ll box you all.” Again 
we are off, and again we stop to box 
Albicillula as they sit on the tree-boles. 
Once out of the wood, beating and boxing 
is the order of the day until we reach 
the Fells ; here we stopped to search for 
an Elaphrus which I saw there long ago ; 
having secured a supply we beat the 
junipers to little purpose, and again meet 
with Eupilhevia on the crags. Over the 
wall, and we are fairly on our way to the 
Mosses. At 12 at noon we set fool on 
the peat, and now all sorts of moss 
insects, Diptera, Stegoptera and Lepi- 
doptcra are Hying here and there, con- 
fusing the young collectors and amusing 
the old hands. “ Ho, Roxbourgli ! follow 
that; it’s Ffrir/ana, fine as bred. And 
here’s a job for you, Mr. Butler; that 
whimsical fellow. Hying now here, now 
there, is an insect you never took; it’s 
Melanippe haslaria!'' and my sides 
shake again as I see my friends floun- 
dering across one of the most rascally 
Mosses (a drain two feet six deep every 
six feet) I ever was upon ; proceeding 
further into the Gale {Mprica), ihe game 
thickens, as do our lalmurs, for here the 
cross-drains commence, and it is a slug- 
gish insect which cannot get away from a 
man with a drain he cannot see to leap 
over or go into every six or nine feet, go 
which way he will, to say nothing of the 
Gale and heather thigh deep always, 
sometimes deeper. Having reached the 
clump of young birches on the further 
corner of the Moss (the clysium of a 
moss-collcctor) wc commenced beating 
for larvte : Falcataria and Lactearia were 
both in fine order, but most difficult to 
obtain when put out in such rough 
ground. We now started for a public- 
house, said to be in existence some two 
or three miles away, at Whiibarrow: 
having refreshed we again look to the 
Moss-hedges, and tried mothing, trudging 
along mid-leg deep in bog, but still all 
bent on work. 
10 o’clock p. M., and the capture 
of the day is secured, — a new species of 
Eupilhecia, safe in my pocket ; and now, 
as we are nine miles from Kendal and 
the light is fading fast, we turn our toes 
Kendalwise and keep them that way. — 
C. S. Guegson, Fletcher Grucie, Slatile^, 
near Liverpool. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Coteophora Melilolella. — Only a single 
example of this insect, for which 1 jiro- 
posed the above name, has been reared, 
and this is now on Mr. Stainton’s set- 
ting-board. It belongs to the Frischella 
group, and seems to stand intermediate 
between tliat species and Dcauratella. 
In the specimen bred the green is ol a 
different hue, and should this be the 
case with those captured in their natural 
haunts it will serve as an easy character 
to distinguish it from the allied species. 
There may be other characters as decided 
by which it may be recognised at (irst 
sight, but not having yet had an op- 
portunity of making a minute investiga- 
tion I leave the matter for the jneseut, 
contenting myself with the fancy that I 
see Compicnella a drug and this new 
one conspicuous. — John Scott, 13, Tor- 
rimjlon Villas, Lee, Lixvisham j June 2U. 
