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out-numbers S. Megera, and S. Hyperanthus is a perfect pest. 
Thecla betule is very scarce, if I may judge from the fact that I 
only saw one larva and one imago; and Polyommatus Phleas 
and Lycena Icarus cannot be called common. Hesperia linea is 
of much more frequent occurrence than H. sylvanus (these two 
are both generally distributed, but Syricthus alveolus and T'hanaos 
Tages are confined to Park Hill Inclosure and Stubby Copse, the 
latter insect being never abundant and usually scarce, the former 
lively little creature, generally common, occurring in little com- 
panies of three or four together. 
As to the Heterocera, I may as well mention that Notodonta 
dodonea and Amphydasis prodromaria are, like the majority of 
the oak-feeding species, ‘generally distributed throughout the 
forest, and, together with Cymatophora ridens and other species, 
were beaten in some numbers (as larvee) at Rhinefield, in June, 
1875 ; where also was captured the larve of Hoporina croceago. 
Saturnia carpinti is not common, and I only saw two females of 
Selidosema plumaria alive: both of these were captured on a 
heath west of Bignell Wood: I may note that I never saw this 
species settle on anything but heather; and that, although I 
devoted an evening to mothing for it on the race-course, I 
could not find a single specimen on the wing. I may, besides, 
call attention to a peculiar habit of the pretty little Corycia 
taminata, which frequently settles on the trunks of fir trees, 
where it forms a most conspicuous object at rest in the morning. 
It was common in Park Ground Inclosure, and I also saw it in 
Ramnor. C. temerata I never saw alive. T'eniocampa rubricosa, 
Trachea piniperda, and Larentia multistrigaria occur in the spring, 
but not usually, in any numbers; and Cymatophora diluta, Ancho- 
celis rujina, Xanthia cerago, and X. silago may be mentioned 
amongst the frequenters of sugar in the autumn; and, in con- 
clusion, it may not be out of place to state that, of the two 
gaily-coloured Huclidie (both habitués of Park Hill and Stubby 
Copse), HH. glyphica falls most often a victim to the net 
and pin. 
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