234 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIEi'IES. 



North London Natural History Society.- — -The usual Whitsuntide 

 excursion to the New Forest started on Friday, May 31st, 1895. 

 Messrs. Eobbins, Nicholson, and Bacot met at Waterloo at 5.30, and 

 journeyed by the 5.50 train to Southampton. On arriving at Lynd- 

 hurst the party was augmented by Mr. Harvey, who boarded the 

 bus half-way between the station and the town. On arriving at 

 No. 2, Lynwood, the usual generous spread was discovered, and was 

 rapidly reduced to scarcity by the efforts of the four hungry North 

 Londoners. 



The following morning turned out cloudy and wet, and an early 

 excursion by Messrs. Bacot and Nicholson produced no result worth 

 mentioning. The morning continuing showery and unpropitious, 

 Messrs. Eobbins and Nicholson stayed indoors till just before dinner, 

 when they essayed a little larva-beating in Beecheu Lane, but the 

 result as regards the larvfe was a decided failure. In the afternoon 

 these gentlemen repeated the experiment of the morning in Denny 

 Wood, and the principal captures were a fine Notodonta trcpida, a good 

 Anaitis plaglata, and a brown specimen of Grammesia triijrammica, all 

 evidently just out; and larvae of Asphnlia ridens, Breplios parthenias, 

 and others. Messrs. Bacot and Harvey also visited Stubby and Denny 

 Woods, and added l\cniocampa miniosa and Ainphidasys strataria among 

 others to the list of larvte, and extended the records of imagines by 

 Tephrosia punctidaria, Bupidus piniaria, and Scodiona hehjiaria, &c., &c. 

 In the evening the party proceeded to sugar about half a mile of trees 

 in Hurst Wood, and took .V. trcpida for " assembling " purposes. The 

 sugar, however, proved totally unattractive, as also did the trcpida ; 

 the latter result was not surprising, as the specimen on further 

 investigation turned out to be a male. The only captures made were 

 some fine specimens of Larentia viridaria. The night was clear, cool, 

 and damp, and there was a bright moon. 



On Sunday Messrs. Bacot and Harvey spent the day at Stubby and 

 Denny Woods, and by beating obtained about 120 larvse of Tanio- 

 campa miniosa and some two dozen Asphcdia ridens ; Eiiclidia (jli/phica 

 and Thera variata were also captured in fine condition, likewise two 

 male Pararge cgeria. After church Messrs. Eobbins and Nicholson 

 went for a stroll along the Minstead Eoad, and took some good speci- 

 mens of Tephrosia punctidaria and Thera variata, and a freshly emerged 

 Hadena thalassina. These were found at rest on young firs on a piece 

 of boggy land, which was plentifully bespattered with the two sundews 

 [Drosera rotundifolia and D. longifulia) and the bog asphodel (AVu-- 

 thecium ossifragum), A moth believed by Mr. Eobbins to be Lobophora 

 haltcrata was seen, but unfortunately missed. In the afternoon Mr. 

 Quail turned up about four o'clock, having taken a fresh specimen of 

 Hadena genistoi on the way from the station. In the evening the whole 

 party went to Matley Bog, but with the exception of some good 

 specimens of Hypsipetes tri/asciata, Lobophrra sexalisata, Kupithecia 

 nanata, and Pachycnemia hipp)oc<xstanaria, nothing fresh was turned up. 

 A nice lot of Scodiona helgiaria were captured on White Moor after- 

 wards in bright moonlight. 



