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should be examined for varieties, as should all the blues, several 
of which occur both here and farther on the Downs; for instance, 
Lycena Agestis, L. Adonis, L. Corydon, with L. Argiolus, on some 
hollies in the hedge enclosing the Downs to the right of Kenley 
Station. Pieris Daplidice has been taken either in the lane or 
on the Downs. 2h. 
Geometers may be disturbed from the hedges during the day- 
. time with the beating-stick ; but in the dusk of evening they are, 
as I have already said, common enough. Amongst them are to 
be found Selenia illunaria and S. illustraria in early spring, or 
during their summer brood; Hemithea thymiaria, Acidalia ornata, 
several Hupithecie, Melanthia ocellata, Melanippe procellata, 
Anticlea rubidata, Phibalapterya vitalbata, Scotosia vetulata, and 
S.rhamnata. As for Tortrices and Tineina their name is legion. 
Even of such nice species, as are many of those just mentioned, 
one gets tired in time, and strolls forward on to the open Downs. 
The road we have just come along crosses the top of Riddlesdown. 
Following it for a few hundred yards we find to the left a small 
wood of mixed trees, but chiefly oak, with a very thick under- 
srowth of hazel, &c. I have frequently worked in this wood, but 
seldom got much in it to repay the time spent there. It seems 
too thick, if the undergrowth has not since been cut. 
On the right of the road is the open Down, sloping with 
southerly aspect to the bottom of the valley, along which runs 
the Caterham high-road past Kenley Station. On this Down the 
juniper (Juniperus communis) is the most striking object: these 
bushes, about two to five feet high, should at all periods of the 
_ year be worked; several species of Lepidoptera are peculiar to 
them. In October and November, when most other species have 
‘gone to their rest,” Thera juniperata often occurs in great abun- 
dance. Little else is to be then taken, and these best by night 
when flitting on the lee sides of the bushes. I always think it 
melancholy work when taking this species: it is the end of the 
season, and then in the darkness of night the junipers are weird 
and sombre-looking, especially when the wind sighs so sadly 
through them. -Much more lively work, although you seldom 
make such a big bag of boxes filled with one species, is in 
August, when we should hunt for the scarce and local Chrosis 
rutilana The imagines of this species are occasionally to be 
disturbed by day when beating the bushes, or by smoking the 
