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the day time. It is an insect which I had not seen alive before, and 
is absent from Hast Dorset. 
Euclidia glyphica.—l captured three. It was not uncommon, 
and could be worked up in the grass. This insect I had only previously 
met with on a limestone formation in Germany. 
Panagra petraria.—Very common. 
Odezia (Tanagra) atrata (chaerophyllata)—My wite captured a 
good series. It kept to the dry headlands covered with bracken. 
The only other localities that I have any personal acquaintance 
with are on the London Clay and Bracklesham Beds in the New 
Forest, 
Xanthorhoé montanata.—Extremely abundant, as usual. 
Zygaena trifolii—The Five-spot Burnet. There is a well estab- 
lished colony of this insect. I do not think it is lonicerae. I had no 
means of taking the larva and few cocoons were available, and I only 
bred one, which I consider to be this species. 
Adscita (Ino) statices.—One specimen, freshly emerged. This insect 
is absent from Kast Dorset, and in my experience I have only met 
with it on the cretaceous formation in Sussex and on a limestone 
formation in Germany, upon which latter it is very abundant. 
Hemaris tityus (bombyliformis).—This insect was busy ova-deposit- 
ing. Altogether I saw about a dozen, none of which gave me a sport- 
ing chance. Mr. Male, however, has taken it. 
Eriogaster lanestris— Webs of the larve were exceedingly abun- 
dant. 
Diaphora mendica.—Has been taken here by Mr. Male. 
A total of 23 species in this small area, most of them abundant. 
My greatest regret was ‘ny failure with Hemaris bombyliformis, which 
I have never seen alive before. I had intended to spend an afternoon 
on it, but a bull broke through two fences to get to the field where we 
were watching for bombyliformis, and as I knew the fence bounding the 
field was unsound (I do not mind owning to being afraid of bulls), and 
I was neither anxious to alarm my wife nor to run any risks with her 
safety, we beat a hasty retreat, when I found he was trying for weak 
places in the fence. Subsequent investigation showed our wisdom, as 
a day or two after I investigated only to find that he had broken both 
rails and rampaged up and down the field pretty vigorously. I will 
deal with my extreme western limit and take the next Greensand 
and Gault formation eminence. 
Lewespon Hinu.—This was a disappointment. Mr. Webber had 
led me io expect great things, but a disastrous fire which had swept 
the hill the preceding summer had thinned things out, and the hill had 
had no time to recover. This was strikingly exemplified by the num- 
ber of teratological specimens I took. Cattle difficulties arose on one 
of the best parts of hill, and after our Drake North experience my wife 
and I kept a wide eye open, and as these cattle showed a marked ten- 
dency to follow us about at a trot, we put as many fences as possible 
between us as quickly as was discreet. The hill itself reaches over 900 
feet. It is crowned with fir trees and has a deep dell full of fine beech 
to the east, which dell was ringing with the woodman’s axe whilst I 
was there. It is capped with a very decided capping of the drift, 
before referred to, which is used as a gravel pit. 
The western slope of the hill is covered with heather and gorse, 
