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Report of the Field Meeting held in Epping Forest on 

 September 20th, 1902. 



By A. Harrison, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



After an interval of many years a Field Meeting of the South 

 London Natural History Society was held in Epping Forest, about 

 twenty-five members assembling at Theydon Bois Station. The route 

 taken was through Epping Thicks to Epping village — a distance of 

 about three or three and a half miles. 



Entomologically speaking, the meeting cannot claim to have been 

 very successful, but the ramble through the Forest was most enjoy- 

 able. Lepidopterists found larvre by no means plentiful, and none 

 but the commoner species fell into the beating trays. 



]Mr. Kemp, as usual at our meetings, worked hard among the 

 Coleoptera, and has supplied the subjoined list of his captures 

 obtained by beating and sweeping. 



Coleoptera. — ZeugophoraflmucoUis (very rare, one specimen on 

 aspen leaf), Ilybius fenestratiis, Hyphydrus ovaties, Laccophilus inter- 

 riipius (Golding's Hill Ponds), Rhagiittn itiqi/isitor (two larvje and 

 one pupa, from which the imago emerged September 22nd), Dory- 

 tomtis pecioralis (on sallow), Apioti /nematodes, Notoxtis monoceros, 

 Phyllodecta vitelliiice, Carabiis catenulatits, Orchestes quercus, O. fagi, 

 Crepidodera helxines, C. attrata, Sti-ophosomus capiiatus, Melauoph 

 thalma gibdosa, Notiophiliis biguttatus, Adalia bipunctata, Halyzia 

 eonglobata, and Coccinella lopinictafa. Among the Odonata there 

 were two specimens of yEschua cyanea, several Sympetrum striolatum, 

 and both sexes of 6". satiguineia/i. 



The meeting concluded with " high tea " at the Cock Hotel at 

 Epping. 



