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desire in life was to get home and have a bath and change of 
raiment. 
The evening proved fine, but cool and breezy—not an encouraging 
one; but we tramped out to the distant ground, determined to catch 
something, if it were only a cold in the head. Loaded with macintoshes, 
satchels, lamps, and the treacle pot, we found ourselves the cynosure 
of all eyes as w T e traversed the town and cliff parade; however, by 
making a point of looking back whenever w r e passed anyone who 
evinced a disposition to stare, we succeeded in catching many curious 
individuals similarly engaged, to their confusion and our amusement. 
Later we found a back way through a country lane, and thence¬ 
forward went in privacy and peace. We only made one new lepidop- 
terous acquaintance, a worn Heliophila littoralis; H. impura also put 
in an appearance, in company with half a dozen Ayrotis ripae. On 
the return journey we looked over the beds of lyme grass in the hopes 
of finding Tapinostola elymi at rest. They may have been resting 
before we reached the spot, but when Mr. May arrived with an 
acetylene gas lamp they rose up and hurled themselves at him and it 
in considerable numbers. There was no need to search. We just 
sat down with the lamp by our side and boxed the insects as they came 
and fluttered up and down the grass stems. Squatting among the 
grass clumps, our field of vision v r as distinctly limited, and we failed 
to observe the approach of a coastguard, and were somewhat startled 
by his gruff “ Good evening.” We soon learned that he had been 
sent down from the station on the cliff above us to ascertain the raison 
d'etre of our lamps, and having satisfied himself on that point, he 
departed. 
There are, by the way, very few diurnal specimens among those 
exhibited by me this evening. As I had put in a considerable amount 
of hard office work during the first half of the year, and expected to 
work equally hard during the remainder, and as Mr. May also antici¬ 
pated much work in the future, we decided that we would do a good 
deal of idling—at any rate, during the day time — and thus recuperate 
and lay in a fresh stock of energy to carry us through another weary 
year of toil — a wise resolve that we have generally started with, but 
save on this occasion have always failed to keep. However, a little 
skirmishing over the adjacent country soon proved that there was 
little collecting to be done during the day, how little may be judged 
from the fact that I renewed my series of Maniola janira and 
Coenonyrnpha pamphilus. Therefore we usually tramped round with 
cameras in the morning (Hunstanton and its surroundings are too 
flat to afford the camera fiend much scope), and between lunch and 
dinner lay on our backs on the sand and read, or else reclined on our — 
chests, and dug up Tapinostola elymi pupae. The latter was an 
eminently profitable way of spending a lazy afternoon. Within a 
hundred yards of the house there were several patches of lyme grass 
growing close to the bathing machine ground, and daily traversed by 
crowds of children. This we deemed too unlikely a spot to be worth 
trying, until one afternoon, out of sheer desire to do someth in y, we 
searched and found a dozen or more pupae each in less than an hour. 
Thenceforward a rout in those patches became a regular feature of the 
aftornoon programme. 
Wednesday evening (June 27th) was warm and still, with a light 
