CAPTURES AT FOLKESTONE DURING JULY. 197 



wind, which is very disastrous to collecting on the Kentish coast; 

 but, considering the season, we did fairly well. 



The usual Diurni were decidedly scarce. We only took one 

 hybernated specimen of Collas Edusa, a few Lyccena Alsus and 

 L. Alexis on the hills, L. Corydon at St. Margaret's Bay, and 

 Hesperia linea in the Warren. I did not even see Argynnis 

 Aglaia, and Satyrus Hyperantlius was rarer than is usual; but 

 this species was carefully looked over, and yielded five specimens 

 with spotless under sides. Arge Galathea were few and far 

 between, though they abounded at Dover. 



The Geometr£e were most to the fore. I netted AcidaUa 

 strigilata in the Warren the day after our arrival, June 30th ; this 

 was considered by local collectors a very early date, and there are 

 now in my store-box about two dozen of this AcidaUa, beaten from 

 clematis, or netted at dusk between the above date and July 23nd. 

 The Warren also afforded us the following Geometras : — Single 

 specimens only of Gnophos ohscurata and Eupithecia subumbrata ; 

 E. absyuthiata from ragwort at dusk, a few Angerona prunaria, 

 AcidaUa scutidata, A. ornata, and Cidaria fulvata. The clematis 

 supplied plenty of Melanippe procellata and Phihalapteryx tersata; 

 now and then AI. gaUata turned up, and later on A. gilvaria. 

 The hedges at the base of Ccesar's Camp and the Sugar Loaf Hills 

 enabled us to add some fine banded Camptogramma biUneata to 

 our score ; also Eupithecia isogrammata, Asthena Uiteata, Ligdia 

 adustata, and Cidaria pyraUata. 



Several expeditions to Baindean Wood were fairly profitable. 

 We easily obtained a number of prettily varied Cidaria russata, 

 and C. immanata. AcidaUa sylvata was moderately common, but 

 worn ; Larentia didymata a pest; Emmelesia affinitata and Scotosia 

 undidata scarce ; single specimens of Geometra papilionaria, 

 Macaria notata, Mekuiippe albicdlata, and Cidaria picata occurred. 



Two trips to St. Margaret's Bay sufiiced to provide me with a 

 fine lot of CalUmorpha dominula, but no noteworthy varieties. 

 The Diurni were much more abundant there than at Folkestone. 

 After working hard in the Warren every available day for Sesia 

 chrysidiformis, our score proved lamentably small. This species 

 is comparatively scarce now ; six or seven years ago I used to 

 take it plentifully on one small spot, but the constant removal of 

 the food-plant for breeding purposes has indisputably done much 

 to render this beautiful little clearwing rarer at Folkestone. 



