EPPING FOREST. 



ITS MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 



" So likewise are the forests compounded things ; for it is 

 the variety of creatures in it that makes this terrestrial globe 

 wherein we live so beautiful and full of delight." — Anony- 

 mous Writer, 1634. 



A LARGE number of collectors visit the Forest 

 armed with butterfly-nets. I need therefore offer 

 no excuse for adding the following list, which does 

 not profess to be exhaustive, prepared by a local 

 entomologist of long experience, of some of his 

 more important " catches " of rare or local species 

 which are indigenous to the Forest, together with 

 the positions in which they are most likely to 

 occur. 



Vanessa antiopa {The Camhaivell Beauty). One specimen. 



Epping Lower Forest. 

 Thecla betulse ( The Brown Hairstreak). Larvje on black- 

 thorn. Fainnead. 

 Lycsena aegon ( The Silver-studded Blice). On rushes at the 



back of the King's Oak. 

 Macroglossa fuciformis {The Broad-bordered Bee Hazvk- 



Moth). On the flowers of ragged robin at the back of 



King's Oak. 

 Macroglossa bombyliformis {The Narrozv - bordered Bee 



Hazok-Moth). On the flowers of ragged robin at the 



back of King's Oak. 

 Limacodes asellus ( The Triangle). Between Loughton and 



Wake Arms. 



