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258 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Museum under the above name, taken last year in the New Forest by Mr. 

 Adams. — C. W. Dale ; Glanvilles Wootton, August 1st, 1895. 



CoLLECTiNa AT DovER. — CoUiis edusa, South Foreland meadow ; one 

 specimen reported to me ; I have not seen it this year myself. Pamphila 

 sylvanus, abundant. P. linea, about six taken. Pieris hrassicce, fairly 

 common. P. rapm, only two or three seen. Satyr us iaiiira, Cccnonympha 

 2]cnnphilHS, and Melanargia galatea, very abundant on the East Cliff. 

 LyccBim alexis and L. ahus, very sparingly ; both species worn. L. CEgon, 

 a few; good condition. L. corydon, just coming out; condition fine. 

 L. adonis, second brood not yet appeared. Vanessa cardui, one or two 

 seen ; worn. V. urticce, a few hybernated and worn ; this year's specimens 

 just coming out (July 18th). Acherontia atropos and Sinerlnthus ocellatus, 

 one specimen each (brought me by the boatmen ; captured close to electric- 

 lamp, Marine Parade, East Cliff j. Macroglossa stellatariini, three or four 

 noticed round viper's bugloss, East Chff; captured there by others. 

 Zygana Jilipendulcc, swarming on downs ; the earliest emerged, as far as I 

 can tell, simultaneously with the 1st of this mouth. Chcerocampa poi'celiiis, 

 said to occur on viper's bugloss, and has been found this season ; I have not 

 come across it myself. — F. A. Walker; 2, Eastbrook Place, Dover, July 2Uth. 



Notes from Dorset. — Yesterday morning, on a hedge in a field here, 

 I caught a battered specimen of TJiecla betulce ; and later on my brother 

 saw a butterfly, which I think was Colias edusa, but as it was not cauj^ht I 

 am not quite sure ; it looked rather pale, so may have been var. helice or 

 C. hyale. — W. H. Somerset ; Sydney Villa, Sherborne, Dorset, Aug. 16th. 



Notes from New Forest akd Epping Forest. — I have just returned 

 home disappointed from a two days' stay at Brockenhurst. Never before 

 have I known such an absolute dearth of moths for the time of year, beating, 

 treacling, and dusking alike proving almost a dead failure. Rhopalocera 

 were more plentiful, but still far below their usual numbers; Argyiinis 

 jmpliia was fairly common, and still in pretty good condition, half-a-dozen 

 good valesina among them ; A. aglaia and A. adippe very scarce, Limemtis 

 Sibylla very worn, and although Gonopteryx rhamni and Vanessa polychloros 

 were in grand condition they were distuictly rare. The Satyridse, which were 

 plentiful, although not in their usual countless numbers, were princifially 

 composed of Epinephele iunira, E. JtyptrantJtvs, and E. tithonus ; Pararge 

 egeria was seldom seen, and Satynis semele not too common. The latter 

 species was frequently disturbed from the pine trunks in the enclosures, this 

 being the first time I have noticed it in the New Forest away from the 

 heatliland ; Thecla quercus was hardly out, only four specimens being seen. 

 One Leiicania turca and twelve other moths of the very commonest descrip- 

 tion made up the sum total of three nights' treacling, and beating went along 

 at about the same rate. Of Acidalia aversata, which was undoubtedly the 

 commonest species, 1 certainly did not see a dozen, and the rest could pretty 

 well be counted up on the fingers, a male Boariiiia ahietaria and a ieinale 

 Eugonia erosaria being the only ones worth mentioning. A fair number of 

 Eubolia paluvibaria and one Pseudoterpna cytisaria from the heath, one 

 Ellopiafasciaria from a pine trunk, and one Caradrina blanda complete the 

 scantiest list I have ever known or heard of from the New Forest in July. 

 The local collectors all say it is the worst season they remember. This utter 

 failure came as a greater surprise after my experience of Epping Forest at 

 the end of June. I spent two short evenings (June 24th and 27th) at Ching- 



