90 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
We are disposed to think that the leading journal expressed 
public feeling generally in the following paragraph :—“ ‘The vote 
of the House of Commons has smashed, pulverized, and utterly 
destroyed the wanton attempt of the Great Eastern Railway— 
supported, we are sorry to think, from not too disinterested 
motives by the Corporation of London, the appointed Con- 
servators of Epping Forest—to ruin the seclusion of the most 
picturesque part of the Forest by driving a line from Chingford 
to High Beech. . . . The despised entomologists will now 
be able to pursue their butterflies in peace, and the lovers of the 
sylvan scenery which never palls, as Lord Beaconsfield said, will 
be able to enjoy the solitude of the Forest without being dis- 
turbed by the intrusion of an embankment which would only be 
more offensive if, as Sir Thomas Chambers suggested, a futile 
attempt were made to make it look like a natural undulation of 
the ground” (‘ Times,’ March 13th, 1883). ‘The founder of this 
Journal once wrote, “ When Iam gone to that place from whence 
there is no return; when this little effort is defeated by the hand 
of the aggressor; I trust some future entomologist may engrave 
on my tombstone, ‘ He tried to save the People’s Forest for the 
people. I desire no better epitaph” (Hntom. v., 306, and ¢f. 
vol. vill., pp. 1—4). How it would have rejoiced him to have 
thus found the Forest really confirmed to the people; and 
after so brilliant a victory on behalf of the people’s rights, how 
he would have prided himself on being one of the “handful of 
aristocratic bug-hunters” to whom Mr. F’. W. Buxton so tenderly 
alluded in his speech in favour of the Bill.—E. A. F. 
Diurni IN Cornwautu.—At Truro last year I found Diurni 
more abundant than would have been expected owing to the 
badness of the season generally. ‘The following I captured there 
during a fortnight in August and a week in the middle of 
September :—Vanessa urtice, Pyrarga egeria, P. megera, Satyrus 
semele, H:pinephele janira, E. tithonus, Thecla quercus, Polyommatus 
phleas, Lycena varus, L. argiolus, Rodocera rhamni, Pieris napi, 
P. rape, P. brassice, and Hesperia linea, all abundant. I also met 
with, but not abundantly, Argynnis paphia, Pyrameis atalanta, 
and Epinephele hyperanthus.—H. F¥. Benson; Lambeth Palace, 
London. j 
NoroponTa cHAoNIA.—On April 10th, 1882, a friend and 
myself made up our minds to spend Kaster Monday at Tilgate 
