SESSION 1892-93. xlvii 



Hetekocera [Moths). 

 BoMBYCES. Piinagra petraria. Tortrices. 



Hepialus lupuliuus. Lomaspilus marg-inata. Tortrix ministraua. 

 P ,..u.. Eupithecia castigata. I'l.rdia tripuuctaua 



Geometr.e. ^^ lanciata. - 



Eumia luteolata. Melauippe moutauata. 



lodis lactearia. ,, sociata. 



Astheua candidata. ,, fluctuata. 



Acidalia remutaria. Coremia desiguata. Adela viridella 



Cabera pusaria. ,, unidentaria. 



Epliippiphora Bruunichiana. 



TlNE^. 



The leaves of many of the trees, the Younf^ oaks more especially, 

 were seen to be riddled by the larvae of various species of insects, 

 and many larvae and several pupae were taken. In fact the woods 

 seemed to be teeming with life ; the insects dropping from leaf to 

 leaf made a perpetual noise, very much like that of a summer 

 shower, while the birds sang as if exuberant with joy at the 

 bright sunshine and the absence of rain. 



A moorhen was seen on the water in Brocket Park, and a plover 

 near Symond's Hyde Wood. The call of the cuckoo and the song 

 of the nightingale were heard. A water-vole was disturbed by the 

 river- side in Brocket Park, and a hedge-hog was captured just 

 outside Symond's Hyde "Wood. 



Field Meeting, 27th May, 1893. 

 KNEBWORTH. 



At Kneb worth Station the members were met by Mr. T. B. 

 Blow, F.L.S., the Director of the meeting, who conducted them 

 to Knebworth House, the seat of the Earl of Lytton, but now in 

 the occupation of Mr. H. Phipps, by whose permission it was 

 visited. 



A date carved over the doarway records that the house was 

 built in the year 1563, but the greater part was pulled down in 

 1811, and the original features of the old Elizabethan mansion 

 are retained only in the lodge-gate on the Hatfield Road, which 

 was once the entrance, having been I'emoved and re-built, stone 

 for stone, in its present position. The mansion is now in an 

 incongruous mixture of styles, bedecked with gilded minarets and 

 grotesf^ue animals in stucco. The fact that it was once the 

 residence of the first Lord Lytton, gives it an atti'action which 

 may well atone for its fanta.stic architecture, and it was with 

 much interest that the small study in which our great novelist 

 wrote most of his works was inspected. 



After the pictures and other heirlooms had been examined, the 

 gi'ounds were entered, and, under the guidance of the head-gardener, 

 Mr. John Kipling, the gardens were inspected, including the 

 wilderness, which contains many plants of much interest to 

 botanists. Several members then walked to the lake and visited 

 other parts of the park. Cussans well says : * " The principal 



* 'Hist. Herts,' "Broadwater Hundred," p. 114. 



