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taken 10,000. also Eupithecia coronata lame. I quite expected a huge 
percentage to produce ichneumons, and also a large percentage to 
appear as imagines in July, but, strange to say, one only was stung; 
only about 20 per cent, emerged in July and the rest are laying over 
the winter as pupre. 
My next and last half-day’s collecting until August was in early 
July, when I went for L. aegon, etc. ; I found aegon more scarce 
than I have ever known it, and only took a dozen $ s in consequence. 
Hesperia linea was common, also Hipparchia hyperanthus , but Epine- 
phele janira seemed very scarce. 
On August 15th I went to Folkestone, as I expected L. adonis 
would be out very early, and I found j s in the pink of condition, 
and 2 s just starting. I bagged a few nice vars., also a few C. In/ale 
in a lucerne field. 1 had to return on the 18th, and my man went 
down from that day until 21st; he had rather wet and dull days, but 
secured a few O. hyale and a couple of Vanessa cardui, also two or 
three V. atalanta and some nice L. adonis. 
Mr. Bright very much wanted to have a good turn at adonis with 
me, so on Saturday morning (26th) we met at Cannon Street Station; 
having arrived at Folkestone, and fixed up our rooms, we started 
off for the hills with lamps and worked for adonis vars., getting 
a few. Sunday proved very dull, so after lunch we took train to 
Dover and called on Mr. S. Webb, who kindly showed us his 
wonderful collection (or, rather, part of it); we found him not in the 
best of health. After a refreshing tea we went back to Folkestone, 
and in the evening took a turn with the lamps for more adonis vars., 
but came to the conclusion it was slow work compared with daytime, 
and decided not to go again after dark. On the Monday our serious 
work commenced, and we did work ; we spent eleven to twelve hours a 
day for a solid week on the hills examining adonis for vars., and our 
labour was fully rewarded, for we got some grand forms, the best of all 
falling to Mr. Bright; it was a $ in splendid condition, striated to 
the very extreme, in fact it looked as if you had been at work on it 
with a J pen. I never saw adonis in such profusion. We worked in 
the following manner :—We had three killing bottles each, one of 
which was used as a stock pot for vars. and extra fine ones; we netted 
a few and placed in one bottle, then a few more in the next, and then 
sat down and examined them as soon as stupefied and marked all 
rejected specimens by taking the tips off the wings and throwing 
them out; nearly every one came to life in a short time, and we did 
not then net the same fly over and over again ; by the end of the 
week there were thousands flying about with our “ trade mark.” 
About 6 p.m. they settled down for the night, it was then not necessary 
to bottle them, but we still continued to mark all rejected specimens. 
We kept count for a time of the number examined, and I may 
safely say, without any exaggeration, that I have examined over 8,000 
this year. 
By September 1st L. icarus, third brood, were getting common. 
Of V. cardui I took a few on September 2nd, and got them to lay. I 
was very struck with the total absence of blue shot $ s of adonis this 
year. I never saw one with any trace of blue out of the thousands 
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