248 THE entomologist's record. 



of a Tunisian specimen. Both localities are uncultivated, and covered 

 with a variety of plants and shrubs, very similar, apparently, to the 

 rough ground of the Riviera. The place (at Maison-Carree) where he 

 took the species this year was of an extraordinarily limited area, and he 

 and Madam Holl searched in vain twenty yards away from a bunch of 

 Lentisques, to which the butterflies came to bask in the sun, sheltered 

 from the wind. His observations do not suggest what the foodplant is 

 in Algeria. 



Explanation of Plate VII. 



Figs. 1 and 2. — Calloplirys avis from life. Photographed by H. Main. 



Fig. 3. — C. rubi from life. Photographed by A. E. Tonge. 



Figs. 4 and 5. — Average j and ? of G. avis, showing usual amount of 



sexual dimorphism. 

 Fig. 6. — Rather darker <? with pale brand. 



Fig. 7. — Male aberration with very light ground colour and brown cilia. 

 Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7. — Photographed by A. E. Tonge. 



The Lepidoptera of Ruffet's Wood and neighbourhood, 1909=10. 



By FREDERICK J. COULSON. 



Having for the past two summers spent my vacation at Eastbourne, 

 I have been enabled on several occasions to visit that old time locality 

 — the Abbot's Wood region. The following recital of the insects 

 taken or seen upon these occasions ma}', therefore, it is hoped, be of 

 some interest to those who may anticipate paying attention to this 

 district — more particularly to those, who, like myself, are interested in 

 the Micro-Lepidoptera ; though I have to admit that I have not yet 

 passed out of the tyro stage. 



My first visit to this locality was on June 16th, 1909, and the 

 district being entirely new to me, the visit was more for survey 

 purposes than for solid serious collecting. Having no entomological 

 friend to indicate the most profitable route, my inexperience prompted 

 me to take train to Polegate, and set out for a four mile tramp along 

 the main road to Haiisham. This route afforded little opportunity for 

 collecting other than hedge searching and beating. The sun was 

 obscured during the greater part of the time, and except for solitary 

 examples of Pobjommatus icarns and Coenojiyiiipha panrphiliis no butter- 

 flies were on the wing. Opposite some old houses, about a mile from 

 Polegate, the spindle bushes were covered with nests of Hyponomeuta 

 coynatellus, and the tall hawthorns a little beyond, were greatly 

 disfigured by the nests of its congener, /-/. padellm. Occasionally a 

 larva of Diloba caendeocephalo was to been seen resting upon the tips 

 of the sideshoots of the hawthorns, and from the willow bushes in a 

 swampy tract further along the road, some larvte were picked which 

 subsequently produced Tortrix rosanci, and some fine dark T. poclana. 

 From a few ova laid by a 2 Coreniia fernti/ata, beaten from a clump of 

 sallows near by, the resultant imagines, which emerged August 11th- 

 14th were all red-banded, closely resembling the ? parent. 



Abbot's Wood was reached in the early afternoon by a path to the 

 left after passmg a few houses, and the sun just then breaking from the 

 clouds some hope of good work was entertained. Several examples of 

 Au(/iades sylvanns were observed flitting along the hedge leading to 

 the wood, and in a clearing scattered over with fallen logs, near the 

 entrance, Brcntliis euphrost/ne occurred commonly but in rather sad 



