30 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
(iii.) Mr. W. W. Male’s note book. 
(iv.) Dale’s Lepidoptera of Dorset, which it is well known is more 
than a little unreliable. 
ie Mrs. Hudson’s results at West Bay in August and September, 
ih 
(vi.) A few observations by my brother and myself, made on the 
occasion of pop visits to Charmouth in years gone by. 
I think that Bridport is quite one of the best collecting centres I 
have ever struck, and the country round is quite the most charming. 
I suppose readers may think that I was looking at the district through 
particularly rose-coloured spectacles, since the time was early June, 
the weather as perfect as English early summer can be, and I was 
enjoying all the pleasures of a new companionship with the most 
delightful companion I could possibly find; but putting aside that 
altogether, Bridport is a very rich district, of an entirely different 
character from the end of the county I knew best, viz., the eastern end, 
and I found it excessively interesting. It has one great drawback, 
which once or twice threatened to be serious. It is a cattle country, 
and like most cattle countries the hedges are indifferently repaired, the 
roads are thoroughly bad, and bulls are unnecessarily abundant and, 
as usual, exceedingly uncertain. 
The first thing that strikes one is that most of the hills are firtree 
crowned, and it is only the hills that are so ornamented, consequently 
pinivorous insects are very rare. Naturally, after the eastern end of the 
county, I drew the conclusion that the fir trees grew on outliers of the 
Reading Beds. I examined as well as I could three clumps. I think 
that at Drake North is on an Hocene Outlier (or perhaps, bearing in 
mind Dewlish, not far distant, Miocene), lying I believe on Chalk and 
not as the +-inch geological survey charts it on Greensand; that at 
Bottom Hill, outside Bridport, I am doubtful about. I think it is 
possibly a similar remnant lying on Oolite, as the soil is sandy. 
The Lewesdon clump, and possibly also the Langdown and Golden 
Cap clumps (which latter two I did not examine, and which at a dis- 
tance appear to be recently planted) are I believe drift. Lewesdon I 
examined ; I feel pretty confident that Lewesdon is capped with drift, 
as the stones at the top seemed to me to be Dartmoor Granite. Lewes- 
don also is the commencement of the bilberry-heather-gorse combina- 
tion so prevalent in Dartmoor and Exmoor, and as one would expect 
the typical insects of Hast Dorset begin to appear, but, oddly enough, 
mixed here and there with insects one inevitably associates with Sussex 
and Kent. 
Standing on Lewesdon one gets an interesting panorama. North- 
eastward is the typical Chalk downland of Dorset, petering out into 
Great Oolite as the hills reach Lewesdon, less bold hills with flatter 
tops and usually devoid of fir trees. Westward, Pilsdon, a Greensand 
outlier, commences the series of treeless, weatherbitten, stonestrewn, 
heatherclad hills that stretch across Devon, which is geologically so 
different. Northward, one looks into the limestone hills and hangers 
of Somerset, and southward and south-eastward, one has the deep rich 
valleys of the Great Oolite and Inferior Oolite, some cut as deep even 
as the Lower Laas, all fertilised with the rich detritus of the denuded 
Chalk and broken down Greensand and Gault. All this country was, 
when I looked on it in June last, brilliantly yellow with Lotus cornicu- 
