10 KAMBLES ROUND FOLKESTONE. 



he found it starved to death. Moral : Poison your 

 insects at once. 



At the flowers of Silene nutans you may very 

 probably in June take Dianthecia allrimacula, an in- 

 sect worth pounds three or four years ago in the 

 market, but now its value is reckoned in shillings. 

 It unaccountably turned up again in this country 

 when everybody thought it was gone, and not only 

 asserted its right as a Britisher, but came in numbers. 

 Some dozens are caiight every year in the Folkest.one 

 district. Will some of the other insects now on the 

 list of the dear departed ever come back to our land ? 

 Shall we ever see the Large Copper again ? More 

 unlikely things have occurred. A few larvae and 

 imagos of the Cream- Spot Tiger (Arctia mllica) are 

 taken every year, but they get scarcer, so by the bye 

 do those of Arctia caja Woolly Bears, for which it 

 is difficult to account. I have reared fine broods of 

 the Emperor Moth (Saturnia carpwu) from caterpillars 

 off these brambles ; how is it there have been none 

 the last year or two ? But 1879 was a bad year for 

 larva, at any rate in this locality, else generally the 

 bushes in the hollow past the turnpike gate have 

 been swarming with them. 



The only butterflies worth noticing here are the 

 Clouded Yellows (Colias Edusa and C. Hyalevfiih a few 

 Helice) which come occasionally in their unaccount- 

 ably independent fashion. ^l elite a Cinxia is also 

 said to have formerly fed on these slopes. 



In conclusion, if you, gentle reader, should belong 

 to that unhappy section of mankind known as the 

 non-naturalists, I may yet say you will enjoy this 

 ramble. You may wander along and allow your 



