CC. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



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ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 



President: J. W. Salter, Esq. 



|he new conditions under which the prize for the best 

 collection was offered did not result in any keen 

 competition : a return to the old rules will probably 

 take place next term. H. F. B. S. Moore won the 

 prize. His collection was chiefly remarkable for 

 including a Mazarine Blue and a Camberwell Beauty 

 — the latter a German specimen. 



The expedition to Deerhurst and Wainlode Hill was disappointing 

 from an entomological point of view — that to Birdlip was far more 

 successful ; and we were able to get an almost unlimited supply of 

 Marbled Whites. Collectors who want Fritillaries (High Brown, 

 Silver Wash, and Dark Green) may like to know that there were a 

 large number last year at the lower corner of the Chedworth Woods 

 (to the right, just beyond Withington). The time to go for them is 

 just at the end of the Summer term, and it is an easy distance to 

 cycle on a half-holiday. There were a number of Purple Hair-streaks 

 in the same place last August, but .they are difficult to catch, unless 

 taken by surprise on the low oak-clumps. 



Intending collectors are asked to give in their names early next 

 term. 



