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the large tract of woodland known as Burley Inclosures. 
Vinney Ridge, a large new inclosure containing a heronry, lies 
to the right. It is stated that Pieris crategi is common about 
here, but I never had an opportunity of verifying the truth of 
the statement. The only drawback to Rhinefield is the almost 
entire absence of undergrowth, there being scarcely any bushes 
and only a few wretched apologies for clumps of bramble, which 
appear—why I know not—to be quite parched up and only 
just able to rear their drooping heads above the soil. Just 
outside the entrance into the inclosure from the Christchurch 
road are, or were, a few very fine old oak trees, on one of which 
I took a small colony of the larve of Cidaria psittacata (which I 
had found rare elsewhere); they were very vividly coloured, and 
elongate even for Cidarie. I will not trouble the reader to 
_ follow me to the other inclosures along the Christchurch and 
Ringwood roads. They are very large, and no doubt would be 
productive in a good season, as the undergrowth (which includes 
in some of them a good deal of maple) is denser and more varied 
than in many of those I have described. The beauties of the 
fine beech glades in this direction, and of Knight Wood and 
Mark Ash, have been held up to the admiration of tourists time 
out of mind; and between them and the Christchurch road hes 
such an extended expanse of woodland (e. g. Anderwood, Oakley 
and Burley old and new inclosures, &c.‘, covering more than four 
square miles of country, that it would be strange indeed if they 
were entirely void of insect inhabitants. One of them, noted 
for its fine holly and rhododendrons, is said to be a favourite 
resort of the Macroglosse and Lycena Argiolus; but their 
distance from my head-quarters prevented my caring to risk 
wasting time by neglecting the localities with which I was already 
acquainted in their favour, and I never met with any one who 
knew much about them. In one (Dames Slough Inclosure) 
I once took a solitary Lycena Corydon, flying amongst long grass 
ona very cloudy day. This is a plantation of even smaller trees 
than those in Park Hill. The only other locality hereabouts 
that I shall mention is Gritnam Wood, a good-sized glade, com- 
posed principally of fine beech trees and occupying the rising 
ground to the north of Hurst Hill, between it and tlie Christ- 
church road. Here the larve of Ephyra trilinearia swarmed in 
1874, and Platypteryx unguicula and Lithosia rubricollis are said to 
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