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plenty of woods ; oak and beech copses ; plantations here and 

 there ; a pine and larch wood stretching all along one side of 

 Will's Neck ; high hedges ; plenty of grass-land ; large tracts of 

 rough ground covered with heather, bramble, and bracken ; 

 besides immense quantities of heath, &c, on the Quantocks ; 

 boggy, damp meadows in the bottom of the valley ; abundance of 

 sallows all along the railway line and elsewhere ; high railway- 

 banks bordered by woods ; — in fine, a variety of ground not often 

 met with within so small a compass. 



Whether my own unfulfilled hopes and disappointments are 

 the result of a bad season, or of my want of knowledge respecting 

 Lepidoptera, or of both, I know not. However, the following is 

 my report for the past year : — 



January produced one specimen of Hybemia rupicapraria ; 

 and during February I caught several specimens of Lemnatojriiila 

 salicella flying round an ash ; and in March, one Xylocampa 

 lithoriza and two Diurnea fagella. 



During April two or three turns at the sallows produced but 

 the common Tceniocampa gothica, T. stabilis, and T. cruda. I 

 took at dusk two Selenia illunaria, two Cidaria suffumata, and 

 one Anticlea badiata. On the Quantocks I took by day a 

 specimen of Pachycnemia hippocastanaria, on the 12th. One 

 hybernated Scopelosoma satellitia alone represented the Noctuse, 

 caught at sugar. 



When May arrived Diurni showed up by no means plentifully, 

 my note-book recording the usual members of the Pieridse, 

 Anthocharis cardamines, Argynnis euphrosyne, and A. selene, but 

 these were in no abundance. The Geometry were represented 

 but by few species, among which I noticed Odontopera bidentata, 

 Cabera exanthemaria, Lomaspilis marginata, Anticlea rubidata, 

 and A. badiata. Occurring in abundance was Panagra petraria, 

 Melanippe montanata, and Cidaria suffumata. The Noctuse were 

 very scarce, at least to me ; Xylophasia rurea only was plentiful, 

 although I saw a few others equally common, and one Phytometra 

 csnea. Of the Micros I can only name Pionea forficalis, Ebulea 

 sambucalis, Tortrix ministrana, Spilonota roborana, Pardia 

 tripunctana, Adela viridella, and A. fibulella. 



In June the only butterfly different from those mentioned in 

 May, which came across my path, was a hybernated Vanessa 

 cardui. Without comment I give a considerable number from the 



