44 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
rest of the colony into their new home. I agree with Dr. Chapman 
that if it had not been partly drowned in the honey it would have lived 
even longer. 
The other two records of headless ants are—a % of M. ruginodis, 
which was kept alive by C. C. Best Gardner for 21 or 22 days [ Brit. 
Ants, 119 (1915)], and a Formica rufa 8 which Janet had under obser- 
vation for 29 days before it died [C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris, 127, 130 (1898] ; 
Brit. Ants, 249 (1915)|.—H. DonistHorps. | 
Some Account of Bridport and its Neighbourhood from the point 
of view of the Lepidopterist, particularly having regard 
to the Geological Distribution of the Species. 
By W. PARKINSON CURTIS, F.E.S. 
(Continued from page 36.) 
Hooxe Parx.—I now cross to the east again. This place is about 
half a mile west of Drake North, but occupies the talus slopes and foot 
of Warren Hill, from 300 feet to 520 feet. In composition it is a bit 
of a puzzle; it is a large wood, 416 acres, and when my wife and I 
were there it was so breathlessly hot that we were not precisely ener- 
getic. I don’t think I even scampered over one-eighth of its area. It 
appears to be a place easily able to live up to its reputation. It hardly 
ends abruptly at the foot of Warren Hill, as it peters out into stunted 
trees and bushes at 550 feet, above which Warren Hill reaches 661 feet. 
Just here matters are complicated by three parallel faults running about 
W.4N. Warren Hill is charted as Greensand and Gault. Actually 
the top of it is white Chalk, but the débris on which Hooke Park stands 
is puzzling. Nominally the upper part of the wood is narrowly 
bordered by Greensand, the main part of the wood is Great Oolite, the 
extreme southernmost fringe, where the wood runs from 25 feet below 
to 25 feet above the 300 feet contour line, is Inferior Oolite. In some 
places the soil has a tendency to a white clayey consistency, which is 
agreeable with the charting, but the major part has a surface soil of a 
light sandy nature, reminding one of the Reading Bed portion of Bere 
Wood (Hast Dorset), a resemblance heightened by the presence of 
rhododendron. This may be broken down Greensand and Gault, but 
I suspect with a strong admixture of what was once an Eocene or 
Miocene capping to. Warren Hill and Drake North. The most striking 
feature of the wood is the undergrowth, little hazel, some sallow, an 
abundance of alder, and no birch. Birch I never saw in the district at 
all. This gives the wood a rather sombre tone, and no doubt gives it 
a special fauna. There is a wealth of stunted sloe on the outskirts, but 
the little casual beating I did for Ruralis (Zephyrus) betulae was not 
productive of the desired result. My own captures in the wood were 
limited. Gnophria rudbricollis literally swarmed on two afternoons, 
dancing round the tops of the trees, but hardly ever coming within 
reach. They occasionally volplaned down to the tops of the alders. 
By using a tall ash beating stick as a handle for one net and a 15 foot 
green alder stick of uncertain weight and pliability for another, my 
wife and I managed to get about 80. It is no exaggeration to say that 
every tree had a tassel of 50 to 100 of these insects on the lee side, 
dancing like May flies, or skittering round the top of the tree like mice. 
A single specimen of Drepana falcataria was obtained notwith- 
