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collector, but assured me that he was not a person who was at 
all likely to have purchased the insect, or obtained it otherwise 
than by capture. My friend supposed it be a hairstreak until I 
informed him as to its identity. It is now in the fine collection 
of Mr. A. F. Sheppard, of Lee, for whom I obtained it; and from 
my friend’s account of it I entertain no doubt but that it is also 
a really British specimen of L. Betica.—Samur~t McCavut; 
Blackheath Club, Bennett Park, Blackheath, April 25, 1879. 
Insect Huntine 1n Appot’s Woop.—The very interesting 
account of the New Forest that has lately appeared in the ‘ Ento- 
mologist’ (Entom. xii. 75, 96, 120), under the title of ‘‘ A Lepidop- 
terist’s Guide to Lyndhurst,” cannot fail to have excited in the 
breasts of many youthful entomologists a longing to visit the 
beautiful spots so faithfully described by Mr. Bernard Lockyer. 
Two difficulties, however, generally stand in the way—time and 
expense. Many a young clerk, tied to his desk in the bank or the 
merchant’s office, can only get a day’s holiday at the most; and the 
question with him is where to go in the shortest time, at the 
smallest possible expense, with the greatest certainty of taking a 
large number of species. My object in writing these few lines is to 
answer this question. A journey to Brockenhurst or Lyndhurst 
averages three hours, at an expense of twenty-two shillings. The 
wood that I shall name can be reached in one hour and forty 
minutes, at an expense of nine shillings and eightpence. This 
wood, almost equal in beauty to the New Forest, is known as 
Abbot’s Wood, and is within twenty-five minutes’ walk of Polegate, 
a station on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. 
One of the company’s fastest trains (the “ paper train”) leaves 
London Bridge at 6.40 a.m., and slips carriages at Polegate at 8.20. 
A train returns from Polegate at 9.42 p.m., arriving at London 
at 12.5. My imaginary clerk may, therefore, spend the entire 
day at the scene of action, with time also for some sugaring. To 
find the best road to the wood, ask any of the officials at Pole- 
gate to point out two red-brick villas known as “ Sunnyside ;” 
follow the road in front of these, and you will come into the 
Hailsham Road (the privet-hedge on your right hand and the old 
blackthorn on the left will repay attention). In front of you, 
on the left, stands a pinky-white cottage with a black slate roof; 
go on past this cottage down the road, and take the first turning 
