206 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &e. 
Lermorrera IN THE New Forest.—It is usually with 
hopeful anticipations that the lepidopterist packs up his apparatus 
and takes his ticket for that favourite collecting-ground, the New 
Forest; and it seldom falls to his lot to experience such a disap- 
pointment as has fallen to those who have resided there during the 
last month, viz. July. The hope of turning up something new, 
or at least of adding to his stock of rarities several interesting 
specimens, makes a trip to the above locality an event to be 
thought of for several months previously. If he has entertained 
any doubt with regard to the old proverb, that “ The pleasures of 
anticipation are greater than those of realisation,” he will still be 
in doubt, for his experience during his visit will assuredly not 
tend to dispel the idea, should he have formed such, that the 
realisation was half as pleasant as the anticipation. Upon his 
arrival, at the end of the second week in June, he would have 
soon observed that few species were on the wing, and even many 
of those which are usually plentiful everywhere were not to be 
seen. Such a paucity of species must have been very noticeable 
to a sojourner at the New Forest during this time, and cannot 
have failed to arouse his curiosity to know the meaning of what 
appears at first sight incomprehensible. Disappointment so often 
falls to the lot of the entomologist in this fickle climate of ours, 
that the more advanced among us begin to look upon it as the 
most likely thing to occur when an excursion, having for its 
object the acquisition of some required species, is planned. Of 
course he will set off his many pleasant surprises on the other side, 
and it is to these that the science of Entomology is much indebted 
for its fast-increasing votaries. Even this latter was not vouch- 
safed to those who followed their usually pleasant amusement in 
the locality named, and the apparition of a few Satyrus hyperan- 
thus, Lycena egon, Hesperia sylvanus, H. linea, and S. janira, 
failed to cheer the eager entomologist in search of such interest- 
ing varieties of Argynnis paphia and Limenitis sibylla, as are so 
often exhibited by those who have visited the New Forest. To 
say that even the two last-named species were scarce would be 
but to give an accurate account, for during a stay of ten days 
hardly two dozen of either were observed, and that in places 
