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distance to his left. Immediately at the end of the copse is the gate 

 of a field which contains many thickets of hawthorn, by entering 

 which, and going straight up the side of the copse till the end of the 

 field is reached, he will arrive at the spot where my father used to take 

 Hamearis liicina. I ought perhaps to add that I have never seen it 

 there myself, but my only attempt was made when my father took me 

 there, unsuccessfully, as a boy of nine or ten, and after that I was 

 never at home at the right season. Returning to the gate, and 

 continuing a few yards along the road, still towards Wolford, Heliodes 

 arbuti may, in some seasons, be found not uncommonly by the road- 

 side ; sometimes, too, Eiifjnnia pob/chloros was to be seen with 

 tolerable frequency here, as also elsewhere on the outskirts of the wood. 

 Returning to the point of exit on to the high road, a most productive 

 locality is reached, where the road is skirted for some distance on the 

 right by the wood, and on the left by another " heath." The former is 

 " taboo," but possibly it is still permissible to enter the latter, in several 

 parts of which Callophri/s riibi is abundant, and Heuiaris fnciforniis is 

 sometimes to be obtained, as well as the common species enumerated 

 for the other " heath " and the succeeding fields. Of course, Epinephele 

 jurtina and E. tithonus are abundant; and on the outskirts of the wood, 

 in addition to Dnjas paphia and the possibiliti/ of Apatura iris, Enodia 

 hyperanthus and Paravf/e egeria are frequent. In one of the wood 

 *' rides" I have more than once taken Melanarriia r/alatea, and possibly 

 a specimen or two might come across the road, but the best locality in 

 the neigbourhood for this species is the camp on Adlestrop Hill, very 

 easily reached from the station of the same name, the first out of 

 Moreton in the Oxford direction. It was, I believe, on the outskirts of 

 the wood that my father took a few specimens of Rnralis betidae, 

 but neither my brother nor I have ever seen it there. Catocala niipta 

 was often to be seen along this road, and sometimes Dicrannva vinida. 

 Polycfonia c-album was to be taken at several places in this neighbour- 

 hood, but the only time I remember to have seen it common was just 

 at the end of the wood shortly before the Fourshire Stone, somewhere 

 in the early nineties. Of Strynion pnini I can only say that I believe 

 my father took it somewhere hereabouts, and that it seems by no means 

 an unlikfily spot for it to occur. On reaching the Fourshire Stone the 

 way to Moreton is, of course, to the right, and something under two 

 miles straight along will bring the wayfarer to the town ; but the wise 

 collector will again take the first turn to the right, and will thus, in a 

 quarter of a mile or less, reach the point where this by-road crosses the 

 path by which he previously came, and striking into the "heath" on 

 his left will return both by a pleasanter and a more profitable route to 

 his destination. 



I ought to have had much more to say of this wood and its outskirts 

 but unfortunately, during my Oxford days, when most of my long 

 vacations were spent at home, and when I should have had my best 

 opportimities, I had almost entirely dropped Entomology, in favour of 

 Music, Archery, and other things, and my interest in it was only revived 

 a 3'ear or two later, from the fact that my colleague in my first master- 

 ship was Mr. A. Eland Shaw, whose first love was Lepidoptera, before 

 he gave up this order for Orthoptera, with which his name is now 

 always connected. 



(To be concluded.) 



