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exposed, in compan}^ and by their united efforts succeed in 

 rolling up and thickening both the borders of the lanceolate 

 leaves of the knot-grass (Polygonum am2)]iibiHin), which change to 

 a cherry-red colour. In the curled leaf the}^ feed, and when 

 full-fed they pupate, forming a slender oat- shaped cocoon of 

 silk, that is intensely white. I have quite a bevy of cocoons, so 

 that I hope to rear both sexes by due care and attention. 

 Winnertz only reared the female, he tells us. I found the larva 

 and pupa some few times in the same fold of the leaf, thus 

 evincing diversity in feeding. Kaltenbach states that the larva 

 lives in July on P. amiMUum. This I invariably found to be 

 the case, though P. amphibium and P. persicaria frequently grew 

 side by side. 



Fulwith Grange, near Harrogate, Nov. 10, 1885. 



NEW FOEEST: "TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED." 



By Hekbert Goss, F.L.S. 



In the November number of the 'Entomologist' (xviii. 308), 

 Mr. P. Bright, of Bournemouth, states that Mr. Lascelles, the 

 Deputy Surveyor of the Forest (or " Ranger," as Mr. Bright 

 styles him), is having boards, intimating that " Trespassers will 

 be prosecuted," nailed on the trees at the entrances to many of 

 the enclosures ; and he raises a question as to Mr. Lascelles' 

 " legal rights " in so doing, and suggests that the matter is one 

 that requires explanation. 



In assisting, in 187 5, the New Forest Defence Association in 

 opposing the Bill, then before Parliament, for the enclosure aud 

 destruction of the whole Forest, it became my duty to make 

 myself acquainted with the history of the New Forest, and the 

 Acts of Parliament relating to its management and government; 

 and I may, therefore, be competent to furnish some information 

 on the question now raised by Mr. Bright. 



The total area within the boundaries of the New Forest 

 comprises some 92,365 acres, of which 27,140 acres are private 

 property, 125 acres are copyhold of Her Majesty's Manor of 

 Lyndhurst, 600 acres are leasehold under the Crown, 500 acres 

 are enclosures belonging to Lodges, and 1000 acres are private 



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