TUTT’S BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA, VOL. I. 103 
these inconspicuous breeding haunts be carefully searched and 
examined, 
It is important to remember also that the absence of Anopheles 
larve on cold, sunless days is not sufficient evidence that the water is 
untenanted. Experience has proved that they may only be in conceal- 
ment, and will often reveal their presence on warmer or more sunny 
days. 
Figures will be given next month to illustrate these notes. 
—H.J.T. 
Tutt’s British Lepidoptera, Vol. I. 
By W. PARKINSON CURTIS, F.E.S. 
Being kept in bed and not allowed to do anything for a day or two, 
as a result of influenza and too much work, I have been amusing my- 
self by reading Tutt’s British Lepidoptera, a book presented to me 
with Stainton’s Tineina, when I got married. It is a very interesting 
book, and is crammed full of the things that one wants to know. But 
two things have aroused my curiosity, and I wonder whether, without 
giving yourself a lot of trouble, you could enlighten me. Cambridge 
is given as authority for “Wareham ” as a locality time after time. 
Now I don’t believe Wareham means Wareham any more than Bland- 
ford (Cambridge) in an earlier era meant Blandford. Bloxworth, where 
the Rey. O. P. Cambridge lived, was once in the Blandford postal area. 
Bloxworth to-day is in the Wareham postal district, but faunistically 
Bloxworth is at the parting of the ways. Wareham is a Tertiary and 
later district. Blandford is a Cretaceous district. Bloxworth stands at 
the junction. To the south is the typical moorland of Dorset so very 
pronounced around Wareham. Northward is the heavy loam and chalk 
downs of the Dorset development of the upper chalk. Bloxworth itself 
having very close to it the junction beds of the Reading, Woolwich and 
London Clay series. 
My brother and I know, in the dark, Mi there, when we are off, or 
on, the London Clay, in late June and early July, because Noctua ditra- 
perium never comes off the London Clay into the parts of the local 
woods with other geological formations. We know according to where 
we sugar if we are going to pick up N. ditrapeziwn or not, and it never 
seems to trespass on to, say Bagshot sand, even if it only be a few yards. 
It is very wonderful really that, as it is a local rarity in Dorset, not a 
common insect as it is in the London district. 
We all know that Hulepia cribraria (form bivittata) is still taken 
south of Bloxworth, and got recorded by Frederick Bond for Blandford, 
where it never did occur and probably never will, because Bloxworth 
was included for postal purposes in Blandford. It occurs to me that 
“ Wareham ”’ may sometimes fall into the same category as an imagi- 
nary locality invented by H.M. Post Office. 
Particularly was my attention called to this by vol.1., p. 154, where 
stress is laid on the liking of M. thunbergella for the chalk, as of course 
the Fens are Gault, and so many of the localities given have pure carbo- 
nate of lime as a very material part of the soil. In fact of the localities 
given, that I know of, Brockenhurst is the only one not definitely in a 
carbonate of lime soil, but then there are (notably on Ramnor) many 
places where beds bearing much lime come to the surface in the New 
