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though I do not remember to have found any scarce species amongst them. 

 In some seasons PsUiira monacha was to be found seated on ahnost every 

 one of them, and oddly enough was taken at sugar also, while in others 

 there was not a specimen to be seen ; on one of these trees too my 

 brother took Dripnonia chaonia in 1891. Last year I found Ino 

 statices there, and it was always a locality for A. filipendnlae ; 

 Gonepteri/x rliamni is generally to be seen there, hybernated or other- 

 wise, and Fieriii vapi may also be counted upon. An ash-tree, just at 

 the end of the little piece of oak-wood mentioned above, was especially 

 favoured for many years, and probably still is so, by Bitliys qnercus. 

 There are several ways of getting from one of these fields to the other, 

 but if the little side path is chosen which leads across a small gated 

 bridge, and the track is followed right across the second field and into 

 the next above it, it is easy by bearing to the right to reach the gate of 

 another small wood, the paths of which are still open to the public. The 

 undergrowth of this, being considerably different from that of the large 

 wood, offers the chance of different species, particularly of Geometers, 

 and the two Brenthids and D. papkia may also be obtained here if 

 they have been missed in their old haunts. The entomologist is 

 advised however to return to the " Vale of Tempe," if making Moreton 

 his headquarters, and having reached the end of this field, to turn to 

 his right and skirt the large wood, to cross the little stream at the 

 bottom, and to make his way round to the high road. In the large 

 field, which is crossed just before reaching this, I have taken 

 Chattendenia w-alhtim, which however I have never known to be 

 common in this district, though it has been taken ixiore than once on 

 the strawberry beds in the Vicarage garden. In those days, one must 

 add, the garden was remarkable for its magnificent elm trees, now, 

 alas ! a thing of the past. Pi/raiucis atalanta was another insect 

 which haunted the garden, especially when there was a fine show of 

 single dahlias, Aegeria tipidiformia flew abundantly around the currant 

 bushes, and Seaia stellataruni was to be seen most summers ; on one 

 occasion my brother obtained in the kitchen a specimen of Afirius 

 convulviili, which however had been crushed, and as far as I remember 

 somewhat spoilt, under the foot of a terrified but undaunted domestic. 

 In the field just in front of the house he took a specimen of Colios 

 ediisa ab. helice in 1877, a year when this species was wonderfully 

 abundant, and he also sends me word that in 1896 he took Celastrina 

 argiolus in the garden, which was the reverse of being a common 

 species with us. One of our favourite occupations as boys, was beating 

 the ivy on the garden wall for moths, but my principal remembrance 

 of the result is the abundance of Triphaena janthina and Caiiipto- 

 fp-annna hilineata that used to emerge ; T. interjecta occasionally 

 varied the monotony. The larvse of Diloba caerideoce)>hala were 

 very common on the laurel bushes, in fact "caterpillars" to 

 me in my young d^iys meant almost exclusively "privet hawks," 

 "drinkers," "yellow-tails," or " figure-of-eights." (We were not 

 scientific !) These recollections, dull perhaps to the reader, are apt to 

 carry one away, and we must return to our hypothetical collector, 

 whom we left arriving at the high road by skirting the wood. He 

 will find himself facing another copse, and his way back to Moreton 

 is to his right, but there are two or three species worth mentioning 

 which have been obtained (at different times of year) within a short 



