LOCALITIES FOR BEGINNERS. 17 
The gipsies are fond of this corner; they are collecting 
too, but their booty is of another kind: they are after 
the dogwood, from which they make multitudes of butchers’ 
skewers. 
Still working on, we come to the railway bridge. Standing 
upon it we look to the left and see the Sevenoaks racecourse. 
This looks a likely place for Pyrales, Tortrices, and Tineina. 
On the right of the bridge are some nice railway banks, which are 
especially inviting for the Hupecilie, &c., on a sunny evening in 
June. ‘Turning our faces from whence we have come, we see our 
road winding on and up to the chalk hills opposite, and for these 
we start. Just past the bridge is a cottage, and a little before 
reaching it we cross a little stream; here we may drink,—for the 
water is always good and the stream is never dry,—as we shall 
probably see none other for a long time. In the hedge bottom, a 
few yards past, grow a number of plants of hemp agrimony 
(Hupatorium cannabinum). ‘This is not by any means a common 
plant in the district. On the seed of this plant may be found 
the larve of Hupithecia coronata. I used to wonder where this 
insect fed in districts where there was no clematis until I found 
this pabulum. 
It is about here we enter on the chalk, and may expect the 
chalk insects ; but although it is still a good collecting ground we 
push on to the hill-side, and for the big chalk-pit we see in the 
distance. On the way, however, our attention is arrested by | 
the great stalks of flowers of the Canterbury bell (Campanula 
latifolia). In these bells may be found the larve of the some- 
what rare pug, Hupithecia campanulata. At the top of the lane 
it is crossed by a high road, known I believe as the “ Pilgrims’ 
Road,” but in olden times more used by smugglers than by 
pilgrims. Crossing this we see some old yew trees (Taxus baccata). 
From these we should get Boarmia abietaria and Lithosia helveola. 
Shortly after this, entering an open place, we find quite an ento- 
mologist’s paradise. The slopes from the wood above the chalk- 
pit are covered with chalk-hill plants in profusion: cowslips 
(Primula veris), and these such large ones; wild thyme (Thymus 
serpyllum), marjoram (Origanum vulgare), St. John’s worts 
(Hypericum), junipers (Juniperus communis), stunted blackthorns, 
viper’s bugloss (Hchium vulgare), orchids, many species; wood 
spurge (Huphorbia amygdaloides), sallows, wood sage (Teucriwm 
