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believe, if well worked, there are many other species beyond those I 

 have met with yet to be taken in the district. From the number of 

 different species I have casually taken, viz., 317, including micros, I 

 have no doubt that Forest Hill must have been at no distant past date 

 a very capital entomological hunting ground ; but, unfortunately, like 

 most of our suburban districts, the builders, by their operations, have 

 destroyed many of the foodplants of the larvs, and so driven the insects 

 further afield. I propose leaving the micros to be dealt with in the 

 next month's Record, and to confine my present notes to those species 

 of macros taken by me and not referred to by Mr. Turner in his list, 

 viz., Sesia myopceforinis, one at rest on a fence, June 29th, 1885 ; Cilix 

 glaiicata, two at rest on a hedge ; LopJiopteryx camelina, one at rest, 

 July 19th, 1887; Cyinatflphora fluctuosa,\on& on a fence, June 3rd, 

 1886; Acronycta {Cuspidia) tridens,^ common on fences; Bydr(vcia 

 micacea, one on a gas lamp ; Dipterygia scabriiiscula, several in various 

 parts of the district on fences ; Apamea basilinea, two at rest on fences; 

 Miana fasciuncula, one on a fence on June 24th, 1886; M. arcuosa, 

 two in June, 1885 ; Grammesia trigrammica, one specimen flying over 

 a hedge, June 8th, 1886 ; Caradrina morpheus, common ; Triphczna 

 ianthina, one only, indoors at light; Tceniocampa incerta, one at light; 

 Anchocelis pistacina, one on a gas lamp ; Hadena pisi, one at rest 

 indoors ! Cucullia chamomillce, one at rest on a railing on May i8th, 

 1886; C. umbratica, one on an oak fence, July 15th, 1885; Erastria 

 fasciana, one on July 24th, 1886 ; Habrostola triplasia, one flying in a 

 garden on June 3otli, 1886 ; Gonoptera libatrix, two flying over a 

 hedge ; Mania maura, common ; Zandognatha grisealis and tarsi- 

 pennalis, one of each on the wing ; Hypena rostralis, one indoors 

 and one on a fence ; ^elenia bilimaria, fairly common ; S. lunaria, 

 one on the wing on June ist, 1886 ; Odontopera bidentata, one 

 on a fence ; Himera pennaria, one on a gas lamp on November 

 20th, 1886 ; Amphidasys strataria, several on fences in April, 1886, 

 but not common ; A. betularia, one only on June 2nd, 1886 ; Tephrosia 

 biundularia, one specimen only ; lodis laciearia, one on the wing on 

 July ist, 1886 ; Phorodesina pustulata, one beaten from a hedge in 

 June, 1888 ; Hemithea strigata, one on a fence at Honor Oak ; Asthetia 

 candidata, two on the wing close to Dulwich Wood ; Acidalia dimi- 

 diata, trigeininaia and dilutaria, one of each on flight on July 3rd, 

 1885 ; Acidalia aversata, common on fences; Tiina?idra amataria, two 

 on the wing on July ist, 1886 ; Cabera pusaria, two only at rest on 

 fences ; Lomaspilis marginata, one at rest on June 22nd, 1889 ; 

 Eiipithecia isogrammata, two only at rest on fences ; E. indigata, one 

 at light on July 3rd, 1885, and one on a fence July 13th, 1888 ; E. 

 exiguata, fairly common ; E. sobrinata, four specimens at different 

 dates on fences; E. pumilata, three on fences in July, 1888; Thera 

 variata, two at rest in June, 1886 ; Melanthia ocellata, one specimen on 

 the wing on May i8th, 1S86 ; Melanippe sociata, common on fences 

 near Dulwich Wood ; Anticlea badiata, common on hedges in May ; 

 Core7nia unidentaria, several specimens at different times on fences ; 

 Eucosmia certata, one at rest on May 8th, 1887 ; Cidaria truncata, one 

 specimen at rest on June 8th, 1886; C. associata,com.vi\ovi. everywhere ; 

 Aglossa pinguinalis, three specimens indoors ; Scoparia basistrigalis} 

 one on a fence on June 30th, 1888 ; S. zelleri, one on May 4th, 888 ; 



■"^ These are remarkable as London insects. — Ed. 



