THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Vou. XII.) SEPTEMBER, 1879. 
[No. 196. 
LOCALITIES -F OF PREGINNE RS. 
No. I1].—DARENTH. 
By Joun T. Carrineton. 
Havine taken our ticket at one of the London Termini of 
the South Eastern Railway for the quaint little town of Dartford, 
in Kent, we arrive there in the course of an hour, for half-a-crown 
return fare. ‘There is little in the town to arrest our attention, 
so walking away from the railway-station over the bridge, and 
leaving the water-mill to the left, we turn sharply to the right, 
through a narrow passage which leads by an ascending path 
through a meadow to the road. The first turn to the left leads 
between two high banks to the Brent—an open space famous for 
martyrdoms by fire in the reign of Queen Mary, and more 
recently for a long law-suit between the local authorities and a 
neighbouring landowner, the latter having laid claim to the 
property of the people. Just as we get on the edge of the Brent 
there is a footpath on the right, across the fields, which leads to 
the high road to Green Street Green. Following the road to the 
right will take us to the “ Fox and Hounds” public-house, so 
well known to the older London entomologists, and immediately 
under Darenth Wood, better known in the vernacular as “ Darn.” 
The Green Street Green road will be found fine collecting 
ground up to the wood. Many nice plants grow by the road- 
sides, and the hedges produce, by beating, some of the best Tortrices 
and Geometers found in the county of Kent. By examining the 
flowers of the field-scabious (Knautia arvensis) both in the day- 
time and by night, in July and August, may be found the pretty 
moths of Hremobia ochroleuca, often quite commonly. It is from 
these hedges that the scarce and local Tortrix semialbana has 
been beaten out in July. Amongst the Clematis vitalba, which 
2E 
