166 THE entomologist's record. 



working this heath for moths, but the only species which occur to my 

 mind are Kuclidia </li/p/dca and E. mi, until one arrives at the top of 

 the heath, just before crossing the Lemington Road where Melanippe 

 hastata sometimes occurred. At this point too begins the haunt of 

 Brenthiti eiiphrosi/ne, which is however more frequent after crossing 

 the road and entering the wood ; I found it here in some numbers but 

 rather worn on June 14th last year. The path from this point, (where 

 my brother took Boamiia roboraria in 1896), goes for half a mile or 

 more through the wood, which is open on the left hand, but for most 

 of the distance enclosed by a hedge on the right. Here the entomo- 

 logist is advised to make the most of his opportunities, for this, which 

 is still in Gloucestershire, is the onl}^ bit of the wood which he can enter. 

 Here Dri/aspapltia is abundant in its season, and Avf/ynnis adippe may also 

 be taken, though the latter is commoner in the fields, which one enters 

 on leaving the wood, and which are also the chosen haunt of A. at/laia, 

 and of either Anthmcera Innicerae or A. trifalii, perhaps of both species. 

 Here too it is possible that the entomologist who is favoured by fortune 

 may see Apatiira iris, or even, if it should be a hot day after rain, 

 have the chance of capturing it, for the path through the wood abounds 

 in damp spots, and his Imperial Majesty's taste for such places is 

 well-known. I have seen this glorious insect at the woodside too in 

 the succeeding fields, and also on the road between the Fourshire 

 Stone and Wolford, but its favourite haunts in the middle of the wood 

 are no longer to be visited. On the oak trees on the left, at the further 

 end of the wood-path, my brother has taken Aspkalia riiiens, but this 

 of course would be possible only on an Easter holiday. The field 

 immediately succeeding the wood (the ai/laia field) abounded last year 

 in llesperia tnalvac and Nisoiiiades tai/es ; Poli/ominatits icariis was also 

 there and in succeeding fields, though not in abundance, and 

 Coenonyiiipha pamphiliix was as common as on the heath. The field is 

 a fairly large one and requires working all over, much would be missed 

 by keeping to the path, which should however be taken up again where it 

 enters another small piece of wood, the track through which is generally 

 very muddy, but in which some nice Geometers may sometimes be picked 

 up. On leaving this bit of oak-wood we arrive in a long narrow field, 

 (known to us, but probably to no one else, as " the Vale of Tempo ") 

 which used to be one of our favourite hunting grounds. This field slopes 

 downwards to the left to a small brook, dividing Gloucestershire from 

 Warwickshire, on the opposite side of which it is met by another 

 sloping in the opposite direction, which is, or used to be, equally 

 prolific, and Avhere Atiriades coridon has been taken ; both are now 

 much more marshy than they used to be, and much more over-grown 

 with meadowsw^eet and other thickly growing plants, but formerly at 

 any rate they were specially beloved by lirenthiH eiip/irofij/ne and 

 B. selene and by Melitaea anrinia'''', and formed the only locality in the 

 neighbourhood in which I have ever seen the latter. In and after 

 August they were much frequented by the Vanessids, especially Pijraweis 

 cardid (in some years), P. atalmita, Vanessa in, and Aijlais urticae. 

 The oak-trees at the top of the " Vale of Tempo " made a good sugaring 

 place, and pupa-digping at their roots was in some seasons productive, 



* I took B. euphroayne commonly there on .June 2nfl, this year, and one 

 specimen of M. aurinia, just out ; I was too early for this and for B. selene. G.W. 



