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mention, that as our new capture was shown to the numerous occupants of Staplake 

 House, no particular surprise was elicited, as more than one soon declared they had 

 seen several like that. 



In August, 1883, two others were taken in the gardens at Staplake, and one 

 found on the road just over the garden fences, but it was so damaged by having 

 been run over by some passing vehicle, that it was not kept. In August, 1884, we 

 were again beating hedges, a distance of three miles from where our former captures 

 had been effected in the previous years, when the object of our search was again 

 found by my young friend, Mr. Waring, who then asked me to bottle it for him, 

 while so doing he took my net and was off again, and soon had his second capture ; 

 while he bottled this example I commenced to beat the hedge inside the field, when, 

 in an instant, I had caught the third. All three being good specimens, the thought 

 struck me as strange that our first and third captures were within three feet of a gate 

 post, through this gateway they had been carting corn, a quantity of the straws had 

 been torn from the loads and lodged on the fence, and from under this unlikely 

 place the two were taken. The next day being Sunday, we were leisurely walking 

 ovei our old hunting ground, when, by an accidental touch of the hedge with a 

 stick, one bolted out and was caught, as it settled on the opposite bank, by Mr. 

 Waring ; on the Monday evening I, with Mr. Waring and two lads, had beat a 

 narrow lane, so narrow, that by walking down the centre, one could and did net at 

 both sides, the boys being at least twenty yards in our rear, when one of them called 

 out that a large insect had just got up and flown over the hedges, in an instant to 

 return exactly to where I was, and in another moment he was my prisoner, making 

 in all five specimens, three of which had fallen to my share. Let me here note that 

 undoubtedly this had been disturbed by the beating stick, had fallen, and rose to 

 fly considerably faster than any found during the day-time. 



Again, in 1885, I was on my old hunting ground in search of C. Hera. On the 

 12th Mr. Waring and I had gone up the same lane where our last insect in 1884 had 

 been taken, my son (a lad of 12) had followed us later on in the same narrow lane, 

 when he saw the object of our search on the wing, and he managed to get it. On 

 the 16th, when returning from the Warren, an enclosure from the sea, we were 

 beating on each side of the road, when, strange to say, G. Hera was again dislodged 

 near a gate post where there were loose straws on the hedge. 



In 1888, after a lapse of three summers, I again visited my old quarters 

 arriving there on August 18th. On the 19th the mangled remains of a fine Hera, 

 were found in Waters Lane. The weather now set in wet for several days, and 

 nothing was found until the 31st, when one was seen to fly into a shrub {Thuja 

 aureum) in the garden, was caught, and found to be damaged. 



Mr. Waring and friends walked to Dawlish, and saw a fine one setting on a 

 stone wall, of the var. lutescens, but failed to obtain it. On September 2nd I left for 

 London, but left net and killing bottle with the garden boy, who caught me twO' 

 more, which were duly sent me by Mr. Waring. 



You will find that C. Hera has been found under various circumstances, and no 

 fixed place I think can be given. My young friend, W. Waring, has found several 

 of his own on a slope covered with long and coarse grass, &c., close to the Estuary. 



Grange Hall, Kotherham : 



September Ibth 1892. 



