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which it was surrounded ; so like were they that, had it not been for 

 the suspicious movements of the bird, I might have unknowingly 

 stepped on them. 



On May 27th, a very hot day, I had such an experience with 

 Dixirni I never remember, at this time of year, before. In a cut-down 

 corner of the woods just beyond Cuxton, within the space of 100 yards, 

 I saw or took eight species within as many minutes — Gonepteryx 

 rhamni, Knclilo'e cardamines, Pieris rapae, P. napi, P. brassicae, lirentliis 

 eiiphrosyne, Celastrhia oryioliis, and Xisuinades tages. June 5th, at Cux- 

 ton, was very stormy and insects shy — a few each of Botys pandalh-, 

 Eupithecia siibunihrata, E. satyrata, E. castiyata, with one Hetiiaris tityus 

 {bomhylifnrmis), two Lyydia adiistato, one Spilosoma iiiendica 2 , from 

 which I got a nice lot of ova, the larvae from which have since pupated 

 quite successsfully, comprised my captures. A run to Hailing on June 

 10th, with Lieut. J. J. Jacobs, was only worthy of note from the fact of 

 finding larvfe of Odontia detitalii^ and half-a-dozen imagines of Hel- 

 linsia carphodactyla. On the 17th, a journey to Queensdown Warren, 

 in bad weather enabled me to get a nice series of Crambns cJirysnnu- 

 chelltis. On the way home, sugar in the woods produced crowds' of 

 common Noctuids, but nothing specially worthy of note. June 24th, 

 at Hailing, produced a few rather worn Bofy>i pandalis and a few good 

 To.rocaiiipa pas^tininii, O.ryptilus parvidactyla, and Merrifieldia tetra- 

 dactyla. From June 29th to July 8th all the spare time was spent 

 on the marshes at the Isle of Grayne for Leiicania favicoLor, Acidalia 

 emxitaria, Mamestra abjecta, Hadena siiasa, and larvae of Malacosoma 

 castrensis, a nice series of each being obtained, while swarms of fine 

 Adactylus bennettii and rather worn Gilbiieria pallidactyla (bertrami) 

 made us wish twilight would last half the night instead of half-an- 

 hour. July 9th was fearfully windy, but Lieut. J. J. Jacobs and I 

 turned up a few Acidalia rusticata in its old haunts at Higham ; this 

 species is getting much scarcer than formerly in this locality, whilst 

 a few each of Holio vauaria and Heunthea thyiniara enlivened our 

 journey into Chattenden, where a few Melanthia riibiyinota were 

 flying, but we had hardly got into the woods before the wind dropped 

 and down came the rain. We, however, looked in on the old Nola 

 albidalis ground, but only to meet with farther disappointment, and 

 the falling of the drizzling rain was no compensation for the sight of 

 the animated snow-flakes which used to gladden our eyes and excite 

 our nerves away back in the " eighties." 



July 11th was fairly fine, and an evening spent on the marshes 

 nearStrood with Calaniia jiJiraymitidis, Chilo jdiragmitellus, Homoeosotna 

 senecionis, and Gilbneria pallidactyla {bertraiiii), proved an enjoyable 

 change. The next nine days were more or less wet and unpleasant, 

 but, on the 20th, a fine morning tempted me into making a special 

 journey by train to Snodland for Ebulm stac/iydalis, but the results 

 were poor, very poor, viz., a wet jacket, and a few each of Pionaea 

 straiiientalis, harentia didyniata, Eupisteria lieperata, Coreuiia quadri- 

 fasciaria, Acidalia emaryinata, and larvie of Adaina iiiicrodactyla. On 

 July 21st, sugar on the marshes near home attracted a few Maviestra 

 abjecta and Hydroccia pahulis; L'alawia phraymitidis was also common, 

 but all too much washed out to be worth taking. 



The afternoon of July 22nd was spent on the chalk-hills in the 

 teeth of a boisterous wind, which was not pleasant, although the sun 



