170 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



of camps and rifle ranges connected by roads and ways much knocked 

 about by traffic of all descriptions connected with the war. Thus it 

 seems obvious that only the closest observation can wrest Nature's 

 secrets from her here. 



April 23rd. — To-day, while walking from Blackdown Camp to 

 Camberley across Chobham Ridges, I noticed several magpies and a 

 jay. The early moth, Brephos parthejiias, heqaQntW settled on the 

 upper branches of the birch, which was not yet in leaf. The day was 

 fine, but the prevalance of clouds no doubt prevented me from 

 observing more than a solitary hybernated Aijlais nrticae. 



April 29th. — Fine and sunny. The hybernated females of 

 Gcnepten/x rhamni were flying over the heather amid the fir-trees to 

 the right of Chobham Ridges, as though looking for the buckthorn, a 

 by no means common shrub in this neighbourhood. I succeeded in 

 killing a female of B. piutlieniaH with the knob of my stick, without 

 damaging it, as it rested for a few moments on the ground. 



May 5th. — Fine but very gusty. I walked across Chobham Ridges 

 towards Windlesham, and in a copse near that village I obtained five 

 examples of Pieris napi, all just emerged, and also a quite fresh example 

 of Eiiiatuvfia atoinaria on the heath. I saw a male of Kuchlo'e 

 cardafiiines and some hybernated males of (J. rhamni. There were also 

 a few specimens of the Tiger Beetle, Cicindela campestris, which later on 

 was quite common in this neighbourhood. 



May 6th. — Another fine day but very windy. Walking to Bagshot 

 Heath by Heatherstone Corner, bird-life appeared very busy and I 

 noticed several magpies, whose silence now spoke of nesting and egg- 

 laying. Jays, wood-pigeons, crows, chaffinches, yellow-hammers, and 

 one brambling, all appeared very busy with domestic matters, with a 

 couple of red-legged partridges on Chobham Ridges on the way home, 

 all lent colour to a walk otherwise uninteresting owing to an almost 

 total absence of insect life on the wing. 



May 13th. — A settled fine day. Again walking to Bagshot in the 

 afternoon across the Heath from Chobham Ridges I found the tiger 

 beetle, C. campeatris, now quite abundant. The males of P. braKsicae 

 (spring brood) were on the wing in some quantity in the wooded glades 

 of the Heath, whilst hybernated females of G. rhanrni were careering 

 wildly over the open heather as G. deopatra does over the Meditei'- 

 ranean heath at Hyeres. The swift flying Anarta inyrtilU was in 

 some numbers, whilst I noted three males of Saturnia pavonia flying 

 wildly as is their wont. The Andrena bees are common on Bagshot 

 Heath, and I have taken several to-day. 



May 20th. — The last few days have been sunless with much rain, 

 and the trees are now rushing into foliage, and growth is everywhere 

 apparent. In many damp spots around, the cuckoo-flower, Cardamine 

 pratemis, is in full flower, and on this Knchlo'e cardamines has been busy 

 ovipositing. 



May 23rd. — I was glad to see Callopkri/s nibi out to-day in the bright 

 sunshine settling on the newest fircones, where capture is easy. The 

 females of Eniatnnja atotiiaria are fairly common on the open heath, 

 and BupaluH jnniaria, fresh out, is settling on the fir-trunks just outside 

 the camp. 



May 26th. — Walking to-day along the Chobham Ridges towards 

 the " Jolly Farmer," I noted freshly emerged examples of Spilosoma 



