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plants. The wood is well situated for collecting, being 

 between two heathy tracts of undtdating country, till lately 

 well supplied with birch copses, and surrounded by some of 

 the finest old oak and beech woods in the forest, — such as 

 Whitley (oak) Wood, between it and the Brockenhmst Road, 

 and Gritnam (beech) Wood, between it and the Christchurch 

 Road to the north-west (a locality for Sarrolhripa Revayaiia). 

 There is, moreover, an enclosure to the east opening out of 

 it abounding in old fir trees (New Park Enclosure), and a 

 farmyard at one corner. It was here in August, 1874, that I 

 took varieties of Cidaria hnmanata at sugar, quite equal to 

 those from Scotland; besides dozens of Sociua rJiomboidea, 

 and specimens of Triphccna inlerjecta, Aijrotis puta, Cer'igo 

 cytherea, &c. Having sugared 1 look to larvae hunting, 

 expecting at least a few good things ; but though I could 

 hear the young creatures falling off" their food-plants as 1 

 shone the light on them, I could not secure anything better 

 than a minute individual, which I made out to be Noctiia 

 hrututea. This sort of thing, carried on till 10 p.m., grew 

 rather back- if not heart-breaking; so after a round at 

 sugar, which produced a few nice T(Bniocampa munda and 

 some common hybernated NocIikb, 1 retired. 



Next morning I made up my mind to a long stroll, and 

 full of determination started for the confines of the forest. I 

 passed through what seemed to promise to be glorious 

 collecting ground, lying to the east of the Christchiu'ch 

 Road ; and a most muddy ramble 1 had. 1 tried a little oak- 

 beating about Rhinefield Sandys, where in 1874 one had but 

 to lap the twigs to fill one's umbrella with such larvae as 

 Diphthera Orion, Boarmia rohoraria, B.consortaria, Eury- 

 meiie dolahraria, Noiodonta dodoncea, Tephrosia exler- 

 saria, &c. ; but none of the expected Rohoraria gladdened 

 my eyes. This is the last and largest enclosure between 

 Hurst Hill and the main road; and at Welverley, an exten- 

 sive wood seven miles from Lyndhurst, I added to my store 

 of TJiera variata to the extent of three only. After crossing 

 ihe rails near Holmsley with some difficulty, owing to the 

 slipperiness of the ground, and tramping laboriously through 

 two miles of woodland path by Woolton Copse Enclosure, I 

 reached home via Set Thorns and Aldridge Hill, not too late 

 to take another turn at sugar, whereat my only notable 

 capture was one Tceiiiocainpa munda. 



Next day, after hard work in Park Hill Enclosure, I came 

 back the richer by one Ellopia Jasciaria and a few Thera 



