LOCALITIES FOR BEGINNERS. 1&9 
London streets. There is no pleasanter than Riddlesdown, which 
is quite a typical chalk down. It is covered with short, turfy 
grass, which is thickly intermixed with flowering plants, while in 
many parts are abundant groups of juniper bushes. ‘These 
bushes are rarely so thick as to interfere with the collector, and 
are a fruitful source of entomological wealth. _ 
Arrived at either Charing Cross, Cannon Street, or London 
Bridge Stations, the student may choose one of about a dozen . 
trains daily, and book his return ticket for half-a-crown to Kenley 
Station. Arrived at Kenley he is positively on the ground, for to 
his right on leaving the station he sees the Down in front of him. 
Another way, and one I always prefer when in no hurry, is by 
East or New Croydon Stations. I use one of these rather than 
West Croydon, and so save a walk through the not very interesting 
town. On leaving either of these stations, which are side by side, 
ask for the Brighton road, and follow it south until you come to 
the lane leading to Riddlesdown. There used to, and may still, be a 
friendly post, on which you read that there is a pretty walk across 
the Down, an unusual addition to the common guide-post. Until 
this point is reached, which is about a mile and a half from the 
station, there is little of entomological interest. The road now 
leads under a railway arch, leaving to the left the celebrated 
Purley oaks, where much collecting was done in'the last generation. 
From that point collecting is good right up to Riddlesdown proper. 
In this lane, which has fine rough hedges on each side, I have 
frequently had a good evening's sport. Itis a good locality for 
Tortrices ; and on some evenings Geometers are in such abundance 
as to puzzle evenasmart collector. In fact a much greater variety 
of moths will be found in this lane than on the Downs farther on. 
The hedges contain a good variety of shrubs, such as hawthorn 
(Crategus oxyacantha), mountain ash (Pyrus aucuparia), wild 
service tree (Pyrus torminalis), several roses and blackberries, 
broom, guelder rose (Viburnum opulus), hazel, sallow, spindle 
tree (Huonymus ewropeus), and several others. Over these trail 
magnificent masses of traveller’s joy (Clematis vitalba), and here 
and there the beautiful bryony (Bryonia dioica), with its fine vine- 
like leaves and red berries in autumn. 
In this lane the young collector may take several butterflies” 
which are well worth looking after. Gonepteryx rhamni, Satyrus 
Megera, S. Semele and S. Tithonus, Polyommatus Phleas, which 
