158 SEPTEMBER. 



Lord Mansfield's demesne), and about half-way down 

 it, on the right, we shall see a gate leading into the 

 wood ; if it should be unfastened, we have only to push 

 it open and walk in, but if it should chance to be 

 fastened, we shall see a large hole in it big enough for 

 a man to pass through by taking his hat off: through 

 this aperture we must therefore pass, and are thence- 

 forth in the wood. 



The wood is large, and is composed of hornbeam, 

 oak, beech, birch, &c. oak and hornbeam prepon- 

 derating, while the undergrowth is very varied, con- 

 sisting of sallow, privet, small black poplar bushes, 

 sloe, spindle, brambles, honeysuckle, &c. ; while the 

 herbaceous growth is abundant and varied, consisting 

 of Solidago virgaurea, Ckcerophyllum, Hypericum, 

 Pastinaca, broom, Heracleum, together with a great 

 variety of smaller plants, Orchidece, rushes, &c. ; and 

 the hedge banks surrounding it are carpeted with ver- 

 dure ; while in the centre of the wood there is a large 

 cultivated field of three or four acres, usually sown 

 with wheat, no unfavourable circumstance or feature to 

 the Lepidopterist, especially at sugar. 



Just past Caen Wood, on the main road to High- 

 gate, we shall see a turning by the side of Lord Mans- 

 field's domain : this is Millfield Lane, and leads from 

 Hampstead to Highgate Rise, and is well worth visiting 

 by the Entomologist ; as in this lane alone, in this 

 neighbourhood, have I as yet met with the larva of 

 Nepticula angulifasciella sparingly on rose bushes, 

 together with N. anomalella in abundance ; and Li- 

 thocolletis Coryli more sparingly on nut bushes. 



In the wood, i. e. Bishop's Wood, on hornbeam 



