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ground a mass of bracken, bramble, primroses, wild violets, &c., 
and (past the end of the entrance ride) perfectly carpeted by 
trailing honeysuckle, here and there forming luxuriant festoons 
and bowers amongst the other undergrowth, which in the denser 
parts of the wood includes much fine sallow, a good cover for 
larvee of Apatura Iris and Stauropus fagi. Pericallia syringaria 
frequents the honeysuckle. At the right hand corner of the first 
cross ride Lithosia mesomella and Epione advenaria occur, 
together with an occasional Coremia propugnata. Phorodesma 
bajularia and Acidalia trigeminata are common, the latter coming 
freely to sugar. In and beyond the cross path the oak is inter- 
spersed with tall fir trees, which I found in 1875 to be the 
favourite resting-places of Tephrosia consonaria and Boarmia 
roboraria. Both species rest at some height from the ground, and 
seldom give a second chance of capture when dislodged. They fly 
wildly; and B. roboraria (which is best taken in the early morning, 
and which comes to sugar late at night) is only to be taken 
plentifully by the aid of a long pole, like that used to capture 
Apatura Iris. The whole wood is a capital sugaring ground; 
and, in 1871, I captured here most of my Triphena subsequa, 
together with crowds of other species, many of which, however, 
did not occur there again. Lithosia complana, Boarmia repandata 
(var. conversaria), and many other Geometre visit the sugared 
trees, and in the autumn Noctua glareosa puts in an appearance. 
Almost enough has, perhaps, been already said and written 
anent the gay butterfly denizens of this (to the student of Nature 
at any rate) attractive wood; I will, therefore, only add that 
the deliciously cool and shady nature of the rides where 
they occur most prolifically, renders this a pleasant, as well 
as productive, retreat in which to observe their lively and 
elegant evolutions. On the most tropical of summer days, only 
broken gleams of sunlight penetrate through the canopy of leafy 
boughs overhead; so that a chase after the maddest of males, 
scared from his nectar-sipping among the blackberry bloom, 
or from amorous gambols around some recently arrived coquette 
of the opposite sex, does not result in the overheated fatigue 
produced by a scamper after an Argynnis in the open rides of the 
newer inclosures. 
If, instead of following the cross drive to the gate leading 
into the open tract facing the high road (Clay Hill Heath), you 
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