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also; aud Hypenodes costestrigalis.—F.C. WooprorngE; Market Drayton, 
July 24, 1892. 
Tue Proposep Rirte Ranew 1x tHE New Forest. — Persons in- 
terested in the New Forest will be glad to hear—if they have not already 
heard—that the vigorous opposition made, during the winter and spring 
months, to the Government proposal to acquire sites in the Forest for rifle 
ranges, to which J alluded in my previous note (February, 1892), has been 
successful. In the first place, the ‘“ Ranges Act, 1891,” under the 
authority of which the whole Forest was at the mercy of the War Office, 
has been repealed; and subsequently the objectionable clauses of the 
Military Lands (Consolidation) Bill, 1892—by virtue of which the Govern- 
ment, although giving up their greater powers, might still have retained 
800 acres of the Forest—have been struck out in Committee. Further, 
a clause has been inserted in the bill last mentioned, providing that 
“ Nothing in this Act shall authorise the taking of any land in the New 
Forest, or shall empower the Commissioners of Woods to grant, or lease, 
or give any license over any land in the New Forest.” The result of the 
recent agitation, and the consequent repeal of the “ Ranges Act, 1891,” 
and the modification of the * Military Lands (Consolidation) Bill, 1892,” is 
to leave the New Forest in exactly the same position, legally, as it was after 
the passing of the “ New Forest Act, 1877,” by which Act it was secured 
to the public as an open space, aud the rights of the Crown to fell timber 
and make further enclosures were stopped. All naturalists and other 
persons interested in the Forest should feel much indebted to the Verderers 
and Commoners of the Forest, the London and local press, and to various 
individuals, for their continuous efforts, for many months, to preserve the 
Forest for the public, the happy results of which have been attained only 
after a long and uphill struggle, and the expenditure of a considerable sum 
of money.—H. Goss; Marazion, Cornwall, July, 1892. 
SOCIETIES. 
SoutH Lonpon EnromonocicaL anp Naturat History Socrety.— 
June 28rd, 1892.—Mr. C. G. Barrett, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 
Mr. Tugwell exhibited five varieties of Argynnis selene, Schiff., one example 
having three silvery spots on the upper surface of each of the inferior 
wings ; Melitea athalia, Rott., one specimen having one of the hind 
wings nearly black; Syrichthus malve, L., var. taras, Meig. Mr. Tugwell 
remarked that he had been recently collecting with Mr. Porritt in Abbot’s 
Wood, Sussex, and in the course of eight nights he estimated they had seen 
20,000 imsects at sugar, and had taken 161 species of Macro-Lepidoptera. 
Mr. 8. G. C. Russell exhibited a specimen of Argynnis selene, and another 
doubtful specimen, which, in the opinion of Messrs. Barrett, Tugwell, and 
Frohawk, might be either A. selene or A. euphrosyne, L. Mr.C.G. Barrett 
showed Spilosoma mendica, Clerck., bred by the Rev. W. F. Johnson, of 
Armagh; and 8S. menthastri, EKsp., bred from larve from Belfast. Mr. 
Frohawk, a long bred series of Melitea cinaxia, L., showing considerable 
variation in depth of markings, one specimen having very dark suffused 
hind wings, whilst in others the central band of the fore wings was absent ; 
a male of Pieris napi, L., intermediate between the spring and summer 
