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and though we search for some 
time no more of the latter species 
are forthcoming. We next de- 
termine to castigate the bushes in 
our vicinity, and commence on 
the brambles and nut -bushes. 
After two or three blows a yellow 
moth flies out ; we bag it, and for 
the first time in the day do not 
recognise our capture. (We after- 
wards found it to be Harpali/ce 
Pyraliaria.) We continue our 
beating, and catch consecutively 
Harpalyce rmsaria, Ennomos U- 
lunaria, Enpithecia subfulvaria, 
and lastly Harpalyce picaria. 
Beating in July is hot work, so 
we rest for a few minutes, leaning 
on our beating-sticks. Suddenly, 
over a tall head of scabious, we 
see an insect a])pear in an instant 
of time, that it seems wonderful 
where it can have sprung from, 
and we almost fancy that, like the 
Eastern genii, it has been deve- 
loped from the air. The graceful 
tapering form and long slender 
proboscis, at once show it to be 
Hlacvoylossa stellatarum. We do 
not know whether to strike at once, 
I or to wait for a better opportunity. 
Alasl that delay is fatal to our 
hopes; for, in another instant, 
: seemingly without the slightest 
effort, the rapid insect is whisking 
I over the highest trees, disappears 
from our view, and reappeai's no 
I more. The position of the sun 
now shows us that it’s lime to re- 
turn to our cottage, if we entertain 
1 any thoughts of dinner; and so, 
I reluctantly, we turn our steps 
1 homewards. On the way, by a 
sudden lucky stroke; we entrap a 
.specimen of Lasiocampa Quercus 
in full career; and after vainly 
(endeavouring to squeez-e the life 
out of him, we are forced to pin 
him alive, though much against 
our inclination. The only other 
captures made during the walk 
consist of Triphoena Junthina and 
Tripluena interjeclay\>o\h of which 
we beat out of an ivy-bush. At 
length hot, tired, and soundly 
Diptera-sucked, but in the best of 
tempers, we regain our cottage, 
and' soon our setting-boards wear 
a motley appearance, well-pleasing 
to our entomological eye. * * 
* * * And now it only re- 
mains for me to thank the Editor 
of ‘The Substitute’ for his kind- 
ness in inserting these rambling 
reminiscences of a stroll that af- 
forded me much delightful occupa- 
tion ; and I cannot help thinking 
how dull and uninteresting, compa- 
ratively speaking,such a walk would 
have been had I not been alive to 
entomological sights and sounds. 
How far the perusal of Mr. Stain- 
ton’s delightful works (which, in 
my estimation, are to Science 
what Macaulay’s are to History,) 
has fostered and increased in me 
that love for insects, which I have 
always possessed, I need not say; 
for I feel sure that every incipient 
Lepidopterist will agree with me, 
that never before has the science 
of insects been presented to us in 
so interesting and enchanting a 
form. — Koland Trimen, 71, 
Guildford Street, Russell Square. 
Are all Lepidoplerous Insects 
infested xvith a Parasite or Ichneu- 
monidceP — I am induced to ask 
this question from having bred, 
during the last six years, nearly 
400 of Macmylossa stellatarum, 
and have never yet had a larva 
but what produced a perfect in- 
sect. If any of the numerous 
readers of ‘The Substitute’ has 
ever had the luck to breed a 
