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action, so as to keep her horizontal when this wiping pressure 

 was appHed. After a few minutes of ovipositing the couple 

 separated, and I was unable to follow the after-adventures of the 

 female. On examining an alga-covered* stone lying just beneath 

 the surface where the female had been ovipositing, I found on it a 

 few elongated eggs, corresponding in size and shape with those 

 extruding in a gelatinous mass from the oviduct of the female 

 above mentioned as caught in connection with two males. 

 Presumably, therefore, these were the eggs of the female whose 

 oviposition I had been observing. 



1919 IN THE NEW FOREST. 

 By Hugh P. Jones. 



Although allowance must be made for the undoubtedly bad 

 season, my this j-ear's collecting in the Forest compares badly 

 with that of 1918 in Northants, Hunts, and Cambridge, and I 

 have scarcely a rarity to record. Nevertheless, the following 

 observations and captures made, as tbey were well off a well- 

 beaten track around Brockenhurst and Lyndhurst, may be of 

 some interest. I was somewhat astonished to find that many 

 wood-haunting species of the east-midland counties are here 

 absent from the Forest, or vice versa. For instance, Melanargia 

 galatea, locally abundant in most woods from Huntingdon to 

 Stamford, here shuns the woods altogether, but becomes common 

 again on the downs in Dorset, etc. Again, Zygcena fiUpendulce 

 swarms on the thistles in Monks' Wood, Hunts, but in other 

 localities is a chalk insect. These examples could be greatly 

 multiplied, and it must be remembered that a former famous 

 locality for Lyccena avion in Northants., Barnwell Wold, is a 

 wood. 



Tbis question of distribution is best worked out by means of 

 the butterflies and moths, but equally applies to other insects. 

 The counties of Northants. and Hunts, seem to accommodate a 

 large portion of the south-western insect fauna in their woods — 

 the only land, by-the-bye, that is uncultivated. 



I did not arrive down here (Lymington) until towards the 

 end of May, therefore missing many of the spring insects, and an 

 inability to obtain the requisite apparatus, combined with a not 

 unnatural mania for exploration, undoubtedly militated at first 

 against success in collecting, so I will date my notes from the 

 beginning of June, when work began in earnest. 



After considerable prospecting in the neighbourhood of 

 Brockenhurst and Lyndhurst, I finally abandoned the better- 

 known localities in favour of the woods near Lymington, settling 

 down for a time in a large patch of chiefly second-growth birch 



* Probably Monostroma or Enteromorpha. 



