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instead of the end, would have been the better time 

 to visit the Forest ; but as it was we had got quite as 

 many as we could easily set, and returned home hot 

 and tired, but well contented with our day's sport. 

 In the evening we tried sugar ; but the clear coldness 



Fig. 22. The Grayling {Sntynis Scmelc). Upper Side of INIalc 



Fig. 23. Under Side of Male Grayling. 



Fig. 24. Upper Side of Female Grayling. 



Fig. 25. Uiider Side of B'emale Grayling. 



of the night, and the undimmcd brightness of the 

 moon, jirevented our having any more aristocratic 

 visitors than one undaunted Pronuba, which seemed 

 to glare at us with mocking eye. So we departed, 

 our hojies of Proinissa and Spoiisa seriou.sly shaken. 



The next day we devoted more to seeing the Forest 

 than to entomology, and took the road to Boldre- 

 wood. Here the Forest is appreciable in all its 

 grandeur ; the great thick oak woods crown the 

 eminences, and mighty beeches stand out in solitary 

 majesty into the sea of fern which swells in long 

 undulations deep into the hidden recesses of the 

 Forest. The beeches of Mark Ash are perhaps 

 some of the finest trees in the Forest ; their tall. 



Fig. 26. Silver-washed Fritillary {Argynnis Pa/'/iia). 

 Upper Side of Male. 



Fig. 27. Large Tortoiseshell JjuUe^v^y {Vanessa />olychlo>oi}. 



Fig. 28. White Admiral (Z^////tv/;V« 6";7y'//<r). Upper Side. 



smooth stems rise \x\) straight and branchless, like 

 pillars in a cathedral aisle, while the light coming 

 dim and green through the far-off roof of leaves gives 

 that sense of solemn beauty which is so impressive in 

 these silent depths of the woods. Where the sun 

 gleams through in an open glade, the bramble- 

 buslies are absolutely swarming with Paphia, Sibylla, 

 Rhainni, and ^-Egei-ia ; and in such places we se- 

 cured a few more Argiohis and J'alczina, and other 



