NOTES, CAPTURES, ETO. 185 
New Foresr in Juty.—The month of July being the most 
lively, and generally considered the most productive, I determined 
to pay a visit with a friend to the New Forest about the 14th. 
Having visited it previously with excellent success, I built many 
“castles in the air” during the journey down, and the visions of 
good things about to be captured both on sugar and on the wing 
made me feel light-hearted upon my arrival. Notwithstanding 
the fact that a resident informed us that things were scarce, I set 
to work with a will, and put my “sugar” on with hope. Soon 
my “castles” vanished one by one—for while waiting for my 
“sugar” to take effect I looked about for such species as were on 
the wing at dusk, and beyond three Acidalia aversata and one 
Melanthia albicillata I saw nothing. Turning to my “sugar” I 
found four much-worn Leucania turca, and my friend on his found 
one Xylophasia polyodon. On other nights our results were 
practically nil, for, except two or three Mania maura, nothing 
arrived. However, we solaced ourselves with the hope that the 
day-flyers would make up for our disappointment; and as the 
sun shone brightly on our first morning we started for the 
Melilott ground, and all I can say is that no Zygena meliloti 
came home on my setting-boards. One or two Argynnis adippe 
sported over the ferns; and upon our arrival at Wood Fidley, 
well known as one of the most productive grounds, we began to 
realize that something was seriously wrong. Here we searched 
the beech-trees for Cleora glabraria without result, and coming 
upon a warm corner we found a bramble-bush smothered with 
bloom and studded with four worn Limenitis sibylla and three 
Argynnis paphia. A single Boarmia roboraria rewarded me for 
my searching, which, being in good condition, was almost the only 
insect of value which I obtained during ten days’ work. This, 
bad as it was, was my best day’s collecting, for I did not see 
either T'riphena fimbria, T. subsequa, Nola strigula, Acidalia 
straminata, A. iornata, Catocala promissa, C. sponsa, Apatura 
iris, Lithosia quadra, and the many other species so certain in 
good seasons. We turned to beating with a like result, for 
beyond one Notodonta chaonia, which fell to my friend’s tray, 
and one half-fed LZ. quadra to mine,—no larve, except a few 
Eupithecia pulchellata from the foxgloves,—no others were seen. 
When I enumerate such other things as I have taken, and those 
mostly in the smallest numbers, viz., Thecla quercus (one), 
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