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the Commonwealth, against Wardour Castle, due west. At any rate the 
** Ditches ’’ are there unto this day. Further in the wood along the 
main path which leads in the end to Sutton Row, I took two J. lucina 
fresh and two R. phlaeas in good condition. This latter butterfly is now 
becoming abundant. I also saw several hybernated Gonepterya rhamni 
and one hybernated Pyrameis cardui. The moths ‘‘ Mother Shipton,” 
Euclidia mi, and the “ Speckled Yellow,’’ Venilia maculata, have both 
been on the wing during the past few days, and I noticed the first 
- hornet of the season flying in Castle Ditches Wood to-day. 
May 31st.—To-day Callophrys rubi is out and I took three fresh 
specimens in Castle Ditches Wood. 
June 2nd.—To-day at Fonthill Abbey I took three more H. lucina 
in perfect condition, also a fine specimen of Spilosoma mendica, “ the 
muslin moth.” I noticed that the females of P. icarus were emerging 
to-day for the first time. 
June 8rd.—To-day by the quarry on the way to Castle Ditches 
Wood from Tisbury, I took a very fine variety of the female of P. icarus, 
the upperside of all the wings being almost entirely suffused with blue, 
T also secured a hybernated female of G. rhamni in extremely good 
condition after its ten months or longer life as an imago. 
June 6th.—After two days of incessant rain I ventured out this 
morning only to return with two males and one female of Pieris napt 
in perfect condition. I have seen nothing of the spring brood of 
Pararge aegeria var. egerides so far in this district, but at Fonthill this 
afternoon, during a game of croquet, I noticed a larger wood than most 
in this neighbourhood in which this species might occur. 
June 8th.—In spite of much rain yesterday and to-day I have 
found both the larve and pupe of Zygaena filipendulae in such huge 
abundance in the grass grown quarry between Tisbury and Castle 
Ditches Wood that one hopes we are in for an Entomological year as 
a ‘* set-off” to the horrors of the war. 
June 18th.—We have had so much rain for more than a week, and 
the sun so over-cast that I have observed but little, but to-day the sun 
is out like a giant, and I have been watching the females of U. argiolus 
busily engaged in ovipositing on the tender leaves and flower buds of 
holly, in preparation for the summer emergence of this pretty 
butterfly. 
June 21st.—At Wood Green, near Breamore, New Forest, to-day 
being fine though overcast, I had to content myself with selecting fine 
females of C. pamphilus from the heather, together with males and 
females of the dragon-fly, which I believe to be Orthetrum caerulescens, 
flying over the ponds and bogs near Wood Green. 
June 26th.—At Wood Green to-day, on account of heavy overcast 
weather with some rain I got nothing but the females of C. pamphilus, 
with the moth “ the green oak Tortrix,” TVortrix viridana. 
June 27th.—The weather showing slight improvement I took a 
good series of the males of Hpinephele jurtina (janira) apparently 
freshly emerged, and a female of P. icarus, with blue suffusion strongly 
extended. 
July 1st.—I had the great pleasure of meeting Dr. Buller, a keen 
botanist, who tells me the bee orchid flower is frequently found on the 
Downs in the neighbourhood of the Roman Camp at Chiselbury above 
Fovant, and I have also been separately informed that the white 
