dered by the best authorities to be truly British is about 350 

 species, so that in Epping Forest alone this interesting class is 

 fairly represented ; and if we included the species found in other 

 parts of the county, and particularly on the coast, the list would 

 doubtless be considerably increased. I may likewise state 

 that three specimens of the Great Bustard have recently been 

 shot in the county. The list of insects of Epping Forest and 

 other parts of the county includes many rare species. Thus 

 in the way of beetles, Mr. T. R. Billups, one of our members, 

 has lately succeeded in capturing at West Ham a species 

 which had not been met with for nearly seventy years — viz., 

 Spercheu8 emarginatus ; and in the same locality numerous 

 other rare and local species, such as Xantholinus fidgidus, 

 Philorithus thermaritm, Stenus fornicatus, Quedius pnncticollis, 

 the new Helopliorits cequalis, &c. At Loughton this same 

 collector has taken the very scarce Euplcctus amhiguus. Of 

 the sixty-seven species of butterflies found in Britain, forty-six 

 are mentioned by Newman as occurring in Essex, and three 

 or four more species may possibly be added if search is made 

 for them in those parts of the county that are on the chalk. 

 From a list of the larger moths drawn up for me by Mr. Cole, 

 it appears also that the collector may be rewarded by many 

 prizes, whilst among the smaller species of Deltoides, Pyralites, 

 Crambites, Tortrices, and Tineina, I am persuaded that there 

 is yet a very rich harvest to be gathered in the Forest and 

 elsewhere in the county. To the lepidopterist, indeed, our 

 district has already been made famous by the capture of such 

 species as Erastria venustula by the late Henry Doubleday, 

 and Sophronia emortualis by Mr. Charles Healy. Epping 

 Forest has furnished also the rare GlupJiisia crenata, the 

 almost unique Eupithecia egenaria and Stigmonota leguminana, 

 whilst Mr. Cole last autumn succeeded in adding a very pretty 

 geometer, SterrJia sacraria, to the list of Essex Lepidoptera. 

 Then again we have Geometra smaragdaria — the "Essex 

 Emerald " — a rare moth well known to be a speciality of our 

 county, found in the low marshes about Southend, St. Osyth, 

 &c. ; and also the extremely local Aleucis 'pictaria found about 

 Loughton. With respect to Hymenoptera, I am informed by 

 Mr. E. A. Fitch, who is an authority on the subject of galls, 



