166 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
FURTHER REMARKS ON LYNDHURST. 
By Bernard Lockyer. 
Unuess things have changed since my last exploration of the 
New Forest, I think visitors will not fail to be struck by the. 
searcity of lichen-feeding species, considering the great abundance 
of their food, which covers every bush and tree to such an extent 
that the oak woods seen from the higher ground in ‘spring before 
the buds are out appear of a uniform whitish gray, almost as if 
frosted over, and which, on many of the bushes hangs in pendant 
masses of over six inches in length. The lichen-feeding Lepi- 
doptera (the Lithosie, &c.) are said to be best taken as pupz 
under moss on the bark of the forest trees. I was especially 
struck by the scarcity of Lithosia complanula, of which I only 
took one larva crawling up a trunk in Denny Wood, and two 
or three perfect insects (one at sugar in Park Ground) ; and by 
the entire absence of L. mesomella from the extensive heaths 
which form such a conspicuous feature in the scenery of the New 
Forest, the only localities where I took it,. and which included 
one near the Clay Hill Heath entrance to Park Hill Inclosure 
just inside the gate, being limited and widely separated. As to 
Cleora glabraria, I have also seen it captured at rest in Park Hall 
Wood, and beat one or two full-fed larvee out of oak in Pondhead 
in August, 1874. 
With respect to butterflies I may mention that, as far as the 
Lyndhurst District is concerned, Leucophasia sinapis is of local 
occurrence, being confined to Park Hill Inclosure, Ramnor and 
Stubby Copse. It also frequents the ‘‘Manor Park,” near 
Minstead. 
Argynnis Paphia and Limenitis Sibylla, although generally 
distributed, are not abundant in every wood in the Forest; 
the first named being most prolific in Bignell Wood, Denny 
Wood, Park Ground and Pondhead, being the only Argynnis 
which breeds in the two latter, and the latter in the two last 
named inclosures only, especially so in Park Ground, where I 
have seen it attracted in some numbers by sugar. 
I took a single specimen of Arge Galathea in Shave 
Green Inclosure in August, 1871. Satyrus digeria usually 
