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hedgerows, and A. urticae are beginning to swarm along railway 
banks and other suitable places. 
July 80th.—On the way to Castle Ditches Wood to-day, just beyond 
Sutton Row, I noticed the second (the summer) brood of RF. phlaeas out 
in splendid condition. The weather was too hot for much collecting 
but I secured a male and a female of the large emerald moth Geometra 
papilionaria, in Castle Ditches Wood, and I noticed that Vanessa 10 
were out in their perfect beauty. 
August 7th.—To-day on the Downs between Fovant Down and 
Swallowcliff Down, the males of Agriades coridon are swarming in 
fresh beauty and the females are just beginning to emerge. J anessa v0 
is becoming much more common in the lanes and outskirts of woods, 
whilst round a wooded knoll on the Downs to the high-left of 
Bucksberry, I noticed the males of Satyrus semele in fair numbers and 
in perfect condition, also the males of the summer brood of Pararge 
megaera, whilst a few Argynnis aglaia were dashing about in the hot 
sun. 
August 12th.—The Downs to-day from Fovant to Swallowcliff and 
beyond are alive with the males of A. coridon, though the females are 
not yet fully out. I have seen no Coliads here so far, I find many of 
the females of P. icarus from the Chalk Downs here are very strongly 
suffused with blue of a very fine form. 
August 18th.—The weather to-day, after almost unbroken sunshine 
from the middle of July, shows signs of a change and insect life is 
much disturbed by a strong breeze. Though Melanargia galathea 
occurs in Wiltshire, J have not noticed it in this district, which abounds 
in most English butterflies, even in likely spots where I expected to 
meet with it. Though I noticed the first males of G. rhamni out in 
perfect condition on August 7th this common butterfly is not so 
abundant at present in this locality as one would have expected. 
August 19th.—To-day I collected along the Downs from Fovant to 
Swallowcliff. This latter village is very prettily situated under the 
Downs towards Castle Ditches Wood, and about two miles from Tisbury. 
The females of Agriades coridon are to-day numerous and in splendid 
condition, the males being now decidedly passés, and requiring careful 
picking. I did most of my best collecting in the copse, etc., known 
as Bucksberry on the Downs, which is in the straight line due south 
from Sutton Row, a group of cottages, between Sutton Mandeville and 
Castle Ditches Wood, most conveniently situated for obtaining tea, 
etc., and probably the most central place for a naturalist to stay at who 
wishes to work this district thoroughly. To-day I noticed on the 
Downs for the first time this year two perfect specimens of Aricia 
medon (astrarche) evidently just emerged. 
August 20th.—To-day walking from Fovant Camp to Tisbury I 
found Vanessa io abundant in grand condition on teasles, at the out- 
skirts of Castles Ditches Wood, at the Sutton Row end, also returning 
from Tisbury in the afternoon at the railway end of this wood, 
approached from the wooded knoll above Tisbury Mill, I found Vanessa 
io, swarming together with both sexes of G. rhamni in fair quantity, 
all on teasle which still attracted males of D. paphia in wonderfully 
fair condition even at this late date. I have seen nothing yet of the 
pearl skipper Urbicola comma, which should fly, perhaps, on the downs, 
