A LEPIDOPTERIST’S GUIDE TO LYNDHURST. CF 
half-a-dozen Catocala sponsa on one tree here: Triphena 
subsequa, Agrotis saucia, and other Noctue too numerous to 
mention, were also taken. Limenitis Sibylla may be seen here, 
but I never found it very common. In Ashurst Wood, on the 
opposite side of the way, and also in Denny Wood, the next 
locality to which I shall ask you to accompany me, Liparis 
monacha is & conspicuous object at rest on the trunks of oak trees 
in July and August. 
Our next day’s excursion may begin by following the Beaulieu 
Road for a mile and three-quarters, through Matley Heath; leaving 
Pond Head on the right, you arrive at a path on the left, running 
between sandy banks and leading to a conspicuous clump of oaks 
and beeches, overshadowing fine holly bushes situated on rising 
ground: opposite this (Matley Wood) a path bordered by 
scattered oaks enters the road, beyond which is a sloping tract 
covered as far as the eye can reach with spreading forest trees. 
This is Denny Wait, the entrance to Denny Wood, a fine expanse 
of forest rather more than a mile in length, extending south to 
Denny Bog and Denny Lodge enclosure. Senecio jacobea grows 
luxuriantly here. Follow the path straight down to the second 
cross-path, where there is a small tract of heather surrounded on 
all sides by the wood. All this is very productive collecting- 
ground in favourable seasons. 
A list of all the species which may be captured here would be 
tedious to wade through, but | may mention that there are some 
small clumps of sallow along the edge of the recently enclosed — 
part of the wood (near Park Hill Wood), on the catkins of which, 
Teniocampa gracilis, T’. miniosa (the larve of which may be 
beaten commonly in June), Hoporina croceago, &c., have been 
taken in the spring; that Lithosia quadra and L. helveola car be 
taken as larve along with Cleora lichenaria and C. glabraria (the 
two first-named insects come to sugar in July); that Chawrocampa 
porcellus, Petasia cassinea, Notodonta trepida, N. chaonia and 
Diphthera Orion have also occurred ; that Lithosia mesomella and 
Agrotis porphyrea frequent the patches of heather in different 
parts of the wood; and that I found Melanthia albicillata 
commoner here than in any of the other woods where I captured 
it. There are some large patches of bramble at the end of the 
cross-path to the right (close to the small enclosure called Little 
Holm Hill), round which I used to take it flitting gently, every 
