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Lrood were observed during our last week. EpineplieU ianira was true 

 to its usvial time of appearance on June 16th, but the first specimens of 

 Argynnis adippe and Lycaena aegon were noticed on the ISth, followed 

 the next day b}^ Limenifis sihglla and Dryas papJiia, surel^'a very early 

 date for all tliese species. The two last mentioned were fully out and 

 abundant by the 22ud, and L. sihylla even began to show decided signs 

 of wear before we left. One pupa of D. paphia, a veritable jewel in its 

 brilliant silver ornamentation, *was found suspended from the under side 

 of a fallen beech trunk ; and a single specimen only of the var. valezina 

 was seen to settle (of course well out of reach) on a flower of the yellow 

 Avater-lily which we were watching at tbe time for Donacias. A. adip-pe^ 

 tliough not as nmnerous as its larger relative, was fairly common, and of 

 the few examples that I netted, one $ was quite a nice variety, with 

 enlarged spots, darkened borders, and ground-colom- much suffused with 

 olivaceous. Specimens of Fyrameis atalanfa, presumably immigrants, 

 were first noticed on June 15th, and were often seen about the Forest 

 afterwards, some of them being almost in " cabinet " condition. An 

 immigration of CoUas edusa also appears to have occurred this year, as 

 I heard of specimens having been seen about Brockenhurst, and on 

 June 22nd a large $ in quite good order was netted in the " Queen's 

 Mead." She was kept for eggs with all due eai-e, but could be induced 

 only to yield a very limited number, and a post-mortem examination 

 showed that she was practically "laid out." A few Hemarls fiiciforntis 

 were observed at the flowers of Ajuga and rhododendrons, and one, 

 apparently in good condition, was seen as late as June 27th. 



Some attention was given to the other Orders, especiallj" to the 

 Hemiptera, but except as regards the Capsidae it was rather too early 

 in the season for these insects. The abundance of the nymphs of 

 Tropicoris rnjipes was quite a feature of the collecting, twenty or thirty 

 of these at a time coming down into the umbrella when an oak was 

 beaten, those of Podisus luridus being much scarcer, and fully-developed 

 examples of both were as yet exceedingly rare. Eysarcoris melano- 

 cephahis turned up now and then in the sweeping-net, and Metatropis 

 rvfescens was found, commonly enough as before, wherever Circaea 

 lutetiana grew in shady places. One $ specimen of Cieadetta montana 

 was beaten out of a small oak, a long way from its reputed head-quarters, 

 and the conspicuous Ledra aitrita occurred on crab-apple. The pretty 

 and very active Fulgorid Oliarus leporinus was swept in numbers 

 from rushes etc. in two widely separated boggy localities. In the 

 Hymenoptern we found a $ of tl^e curious Siricid, Xipliydria drome- 

 dariits, at rest on a small birch log. 



