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to one wood, but this year it appeared to be distributed all over 
the forest in suitable localities; the females were very much 
commoner than the males, I should think in the proportion of 
ten to one. Liparis monacha was commoner than usual, the males 
far less numerous than the females ; some unusually dark varieties 
were taken. Cleora glabraria was very common in the larval 
state; I heard of collectors taking them by the gross. I found a 
few dozen, but all were destroyed by Ichneumons; they were late 
larve, and I do not doubt that the presence of the parasite 
retarded their development, thus giving the Ichneumons a better 
chance, when they assume the perfect state, of finding caterpillars 
large enough for them to deposit their eggs in. 
At sugar almost no insects were seen on some evenings, and 
the only species taken by myself worth mentioning was one 
specimen of Cymataphora oo. 
Mrs. Greathed, of Lady Cross, very kindly presented me with 
a female of Odonestis potatoria of the red colour of the male, 
with very little of the yellow which usually characterises her sex. 
I have but once heard of a similar aberration. 
I should say that upon the whole it is the worst year for 
entomologists ever known in the New Forest, many common 
species being quite absent. 
At page 186 of last month’s ‘ Entomologist,’ Mr. P. J. Lowry 
states that he took Cleora viduaria. Is he quite sure it was 
that species? It has not been heard of in the locality for many 
years. On the same page he states also that he took Liparis 
chrysorrhewa. Is he sure that the insect was not L. auriflua ? 
Pieris napi.—This insect appears in the New Forest to deposit 
its eggs in Barbarea precox, in very wet places, where the larve 
must be constantly lable to submergence, as must also often be 
the case when they feed on Nasturtium officinale, a favourite food 
of the species ; it appears to have a very different constitution to 
that of its allies, P. brassice and P. rape, which always feed in dry 
places. All observations on this insect are now invested with great 
interest, in consequence of Dr. Weisman’s experiments. I am 
engaged in rearing it from the egg. 
(i, Haddo Villas, Blackheath, London, S.E., Aug. 16, 1880. 
