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my house at Buckhurst Hill. The wings were found in the early 

 morning scattered over the floor. Bats are very numerous in the 

 garden, and have been seen " hawking " in and out of the 

 verandah, and I feel tolerably certain that they were the culprits^ 

 The moths determined belonged to i6 species, viz.: — 



Svterinthtis populi. A\ xniithographa. 



Pygivra hucephaln. Plusia garnma. 



Notodonta cainelina. JMania typica. 



Xylophasia polyodon. M. niaiirn. 



Luperina tcstawa. A/iiphipyra pyramidea. 



TripJicDia protiuba. Selcnia litnaria. 



T. orhona. Geometra papilioiaria. 



Noctua augur. Botys vertical is. 



The exhibit was intended to show the constant and keen 

 warfare carried on against moths by those animals preying upon 

 them. My brother found wings of Geometra papilionavia in Birch 

 Wood, Kent, in July, 1867. On June 30th, 1889, in company 

 with Prof. Meldola, in the Epping Forest district, we picked up 

 the wings of Smevinthus tilio', Stilpnotia salicis, and Halias quenana^ 

 which had evidently fallen victims to bats or insectivorous birds. 

 B. G. Cole on two occasions actually saw birds snap the wings 

 off moths — one a Pepper Moth (Amphidasis hetuiaria) in New 

 Forest (July, 1874), and the other a Leopard Moth {Zenzeva 

 ccsculi), at Buckhurst Hill. In the evening, in both cases ; the 

 birds were not identified.— W. Cole, Buckhuvst Hill, November,. 

 1902. 



BOTANY. 

 " The Existing Trees and Shrubs of Epping Forest." 

 — Rihes grossidavia, L. There is a small plant of this species in 

 a thicket near the Fairmead Road. It is too young for the 

 variety to be determined. — F. W. Elliott, April 7th, 1903. 



Early Flowering of the Hawthorn. — Flowers are fully 

 open on a hawthorn in Buckhurst Hill to-day, April 7th. The 

 particular bush is an early blossoming one every year, but this 

 is easily a record, in my experience. — F. W. Elliott. 



Mr. C. B. Sworder, of Epping, writes to the Standard under 

 date April loth. " Some May in bloom was picked to day near 

 here, my earliest record being May 17th, 1898, but I find 

 February i6th, 1834, quoted in the Penny Magazine.'' 



Lathyrus Aphaca. This plant was found on a bank by 

 the side of a field near the Gatehouse Farm, Coggeshall. The 



