104 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
Forest, and in many places the Bracklesham Beds are highly charged 
with lime. 
The New Forest is really known very superficially indeed. Millions 
of insects are caught there, especially by dealers. If labelled at all, it 
is “‘ New Forest.’’ Almost as well label them “ England.” It is too 
big, too varied, and too many localities rolled into one, to be treated as 
if it were what it is not, a homogeneous whole, and as there is hardly a 
decent cutting in it, and very few borings, I don’t lay much store on 
the geological survey of it ; that is decidedly on the skin deep side. It 
really wants careful study over a long period. Of course I may be 
absolutely wrong in associating strata with the distribution of insects, 
but it is more or less an untried key to distribution, and to some extent 
I have found it does account for absence or presence. 
On p. 155, is given Dorset, Kimpton (Curtis). Where is Kimpton 
in Dorset? I don’t know. If the “Curtis” is not the famous father 
of British Entomology, the betting is in favour of its being me, though 
I was not vastly interested in tiny things in 1898, but for at least three 
years prior to that date I had been catching small stuff for Mr. Kustace 
Bankes pretty regularly, sending it to him with very closely localised 
data. Is it now possible to tell whence Mr. Tutt.got that particular 
locality 2? The name is not to a Dorset ear Dorset language, it sounds 
like Sussex to my ear. There is a village called ‘“‘ Drimpton” on the 
Dorset-Somerset border, that is on the Upper Oolite, think. ‘“ Imp” 
is not a Dorset combination, it is a Sussex one. I cannot think, if the 
name be right, why I have not heard of it. If I am supposed to be the 
“Curtis” in question, I never have been to Drimpton. If it was my 
great namesake, I did not know he collected in Dorset. We have 
Knighton, Kniton, Kinson, Kingston, Compton, etc., lots of them 
mainly on chalk or limestone, but no “imps.” I only found Drimp- 
ton after a careful study of the Ordnance Survey map, and that section 
in colours for the geology is £2 12s. 6d., and so I have not got it, but 
guess my strata from contouring off from Pilsdon. Of course Dorset 
possesses no end of “duns,” “‘ dons,” ‘‘ tons,” ete., as one would expect 
in a primeval “ Flanders” front, likewise no end of “ Knights,“ Kings,’ 
and “Regis,” ‘“‘ Abbas” and “ Abbots’ of a later medizeval time. 
Don’t go into a research to try to answer this, but the point may be 
worth clearing up, as I am very careful about data and usually print 
my locality labels, I never write them; but Mr. Bankes might have taken 
it from a letter, misread the word, and passed it on without realising 
that he had been trapped, especially as, for so critical a man, he rarely 
questioned my localisations. When he did sol could always draw him 
a map, which enabled him to go straight to the place, and nearly 
always resulted in getting the insect for himself by way of confirma- 
tion. j 
On page 899, under Adscita statices, the locality ‘‘ Hodd Hill, nr. 
Shillingstone (Fowler),’’ I do question seriously. Do you know any- 
one who saw a statices taken by Fowler on Hodd Hill? (which has two 
“‘dd’s”’), because I failed to find it there, and so did H. R. Bankes, and 
so did the two of us together, when we made a special effort to settle 
it. I always told Fowler his Hodd Hill statices were geryon, and he 
never believed me, although I have taken geryon in Sussex, and have 
them from Malvern, and I have a few globulariae from Sussex, and a 
tremendous series of statices from the limestone hills in the Weser 
