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Many of our moors, mosses, and heaths yield a fair number of good species, 

 or did do so some years ago ; and the undrained fens of Cambridge and 

 Norfolk have long been held in esteem for the richness of their Insect Fauna. 

 Many of the bare, wild districts in the North, "far removed from the haunts 

 of men," have, by sturdy and persistent hunting, been made to yield abun- 

 dantly. The Isle of Man, and the Hill of Howth, near Dublin, have attracted 

 some of our best Entomologists, and have been the means of adding several 

 new species to our Lists. The Isle of Portland is almost the only place 

 where some species of Acidalia are to be found, though success is not always 

 vouchsafed the wayfarer, owing to the villanously wet and windy weather 

 which largely prevails in that district. The coast of Dorset in two places, 

 the Burning Cliff, and Lulworth Cove, yields the very local skipper P. Actjeon. 



The London District includes many good localities which can easily be 

 reached by railway. West Wickham wood, near Croydon, has yielded several 

 good species. The Collector is recommended to proceed from Croydon 

 towards the village of Addington, examining as he goes along the " Bishop's 

 fence" for N. carmelita, should he be there when it is due, and also the 

 birch, fir, and other tree trunks. The wood is near the inn. Coombe wood 

 has been worked by the older Entomologists with great success. It is pre- 

 served for shooting purposes by the Duke of Cambridge, from whose agent 

 Mr. Glutton, Whitehall-place, it is said to be possible to get an order for 

 admission in pursuit of insects. 



Kent, besides being "the garden of England," is probably one of our 

 finest entomological counties. It is so largely blown upon from the sea ; it 

 has such a variety of soil and physical feature ; and it is so liberally inter- 

 spersed with well-wooded hills, that this is not to be wondered at. Fortunate 

 is the Entomologist sojourning or resident in London, with time and means 

 to hunt the coasts, and hills, and glades of sunny Kent. 



It is on our coasts, marshes, and mountains that we are most likely to find 

 species hitherto unrecorded as British, if not absolutely new to Science. 

 Unfortunately working in these places involves a large expenditure of time, 

 while the labour is so severe that only the strongest can follow it up. If 

 some of our Societies could be induced to take this work up, by employing 

 trustworthy Collectors, they would, while adding materially to the richness of 

 their own collections, fulfil a legitimate function of their existence, and give 

 additional lustre to the reputation gained by England of late years in the path 

 of Entomological Discovery. 



