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so further on the more heavily timbered woods were entered, and 

 the greater part of the afternoon was spent in their investigation. 



The High Chart, as this district is marked on the map, although 

 perhaps better known locally as Limpsfield Chart, taking its name 

 from the adjacent village, stands, as its map name implies, at a good 

 elevation, the greater portion of it ranging between 500 and 600 feet 

 above sea-level. The timber is similar to that of the other hills of 

 the range, the larger trees being chiefly oak, beech, and fir, with an 

 occasional white-beam, an abundance of birch in all sizes from 

 little bushes to ancient forest kings, with here and there a bit of 

 sallow, nut, and such like; while the ground is covered with heather, 

 bracken, bilberry, and sundry other of the usual low-growing plants, 

 Galium, including a patch or two of G. veri/ni, being not uncommon 

 on some of the more open parts. 



In so promising a district, and on such a warm sunny afternoon 

 as we were favoured with, one would naturally expect insect life to 

 be abundant ; but it was by no means so, the bad weather of the 

 week previous had left its mark, even sun-loving Lepidoptera ap- 

 peared to be shy at getting on wing, and the beating-stick dislodged 

 the more retiring species only at rare intervals, larvae were con- 

 spicuous rather by their absence than otherwise, and searching the tree- 

 trunks for moths was a wearisome occupation. Fortunately, however, 

 sufficient were found to provide the photographers of the party with' 

 material for sundry illustrations of resting insects, Mr. Enoch securing 

 some interesting examples in colour-photography. Working their 

 way through the woods, the various groups of members eventually 

 found themselves in the Long Walk, a wide and straight path running 

 almost due north and south, and turning to the right until the main 

 road was reached ; some went on to Kent Hatch to avail themselves 

 of the fine views obtainable over the lowlands towards East Grin- 

 stead and Ashdown Forest in the distance, while others busied 

 themselves by collecting along the outskirts of the woods, all 

 eventually meeting at the " Carpenters' Arms," whence the return 

 journey was commenced, and after a pleasant though perhaps some- 

 what warm walk, the " Hoskins Arms Hotel," near Oxted Station, 

 was reached, and the high tea there provided having been partaken 

 of, a pleasant half-hour was spent in the spacious garden attached to 

 the hotel, the return to London being made by the 9.40 train. 



I have already referred to the comparative scarcity of Lepidoptera, 

 the only order that appears to have received any serious attention on 

 the occasion — a scarcity, be it noted, which appears to have been very 

 general throughout the season of 1903. It will therefore not be 

 expected that any long list of captures will be available, but such as 

 I have been able to compile from the notes very kindly sent to me 

 by some fourteen of the members present is appended. One of the 

 species mentioned, Cymatophora fluctuosa, is perhaps worthy of 

 attention. The larva feeds on birch in autumn, and the moth may 

 be attracted to " sugar ; " and I doubt not that if some of our more 



