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genera and species are so numerous, that to notice 

 them all would be beyond the scope of this paper, we 

 therefore purpose limiting our further notes to the 

 more remarkable only of those with which we are 

 acquainted. 



The Forester (Procris Statices) is one of these, it is 

 not uncommon in the uphill district, and is a very 

 beautiful insect, with lovely golden-green wings and 

 body. The Burnet Moths are conspicuous for their 

 crimson-spotted fore wings and crimson hind wings, 

 but two of the species are so nearly alike, that we 

 have probably confounded them and made out two 

 species only instead of three, which are plentiful in 

 the same localities as the last. The Red-necked Foot- 

 man (Lithosia rubricollis), and The Cinnabar (Euchelia 

 Jacobceaz), we find in the valley commonly, and the 

 caterpillar of the latter, with its black rings on a deep 

 yellow body, is often a striking object on the Common 

 Ragwort (Senecio Jacoboea) in waste land near the 

 Brick-kiln copse. The Clouded Buff (Euthemonia 

 russuld) we have taken on East Harting and West 

 Harting Downs, The Wood Tiger (Chelonia Plan- 

 taginis) in and near Padswood Copse, and of The 

 Common Tiger (Chelonia caja) we have had caterpillar 

 and perfect insect from almost every garden in the 

 three villages. The latter is that large moth with fine 

 silky, dark brown, cream-coloured, red-and-black- 

 spotted wings, so common in the early part of sum- 

 mer. The Ruby Tiger (Arctia fuliginosd) is the only 

 other Tiger we have met with in the wilds of Harting. 



The Muslin Moth (Arctia mendica), The Buff Ermine 

 (Arctia lubricipeda\ and The White Ermine (Arctia 

 Mentliastri) belong to our list, and, in connection with 

 the first named species, we have not forgotten an inci- 

 dent that, at the outset of our entomological career, 

 astonished us very much. We had secured a female 

 specimen to the setting board, having, of course, pre- 

 viously killed it, as we believed, but on looking at it a 

 few weeks afterwards for the purpose of removing its 



