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bers they reminded one of the green oak moth, Tortrix viridana ; in & 
distance of a hundred yards there must have been thousands. J am 
quite convinced that there are two distinct natural colours of this 
species. I have taken both the buff and the green form with their 
wings limp, before they had spread them out on the tree-trunks. 
They rest with their wings spread out as if waiting to be placed in the 
cabinet. The larvee must feed on the flowers of the sweet chestnut, 
as the ground under the trees is quite bare on account of the dense 
shade. No flowers or undergrowth exist at this part of the wood 
except the common bracken. At this period the oak trees in some 
parts of the wood looked like winter, the larve of T. viridana were 
denuding the trees of their foliage and were themselves being devoured 
by hundreds of rooks and starlings. I tooka few Scoparia ambigualis 
and S. truncicolella and also two of the same genus that I am in 
doubts about. They both have the marginal band on the upper wings 
complete and not broken up. Amoebe viridaria (pectinitaria) is rapidly 
dying out in this district; it used to be very common. The same 
remarks apply to this species as to Kupithecia coronata, if there are 
not two natural colours how is it they both retain their colour in the 
cabinet ? The green form retains its colour in the cabinet, so does the 
buff form. The common wood carpet Xanthorhoé sociata is still taken | 
here in numbers, but it is a skittish insect to capture. Cabera pusaria 
was In swarms in July. On July 81st I took another Plusia moneta 
in my garden in Mansfield. This makes a level half a dozen that I 
have taken there up till now. 
From Aug. 20th to Aug. 24th I paid a visit to Matlock in Derby- 
shire, but it was wet each day, so that nothing could be done in the 
way of beating either for imagines or larve. I saw only two Pieris 
rapae during my visit, and netted only one Xanthorhoé fluctuata and 
two Camptogramma bilineata. Isecured a brood of Aglais urticae and 
brought them through, but did not obtain a single aberration. Polia 
chi was found on the walls; in whichever direction I went there were 
hundreds of them, but I only took two rather dark forms and none of 
the var. olivacea. I took one P. chi on the church wall at Two Dales 
and one on the entrance door to Chatsworth House. Charaeas yraminis 
was flying in Chatsworth Park, but I only took a couple. 
On Aug. 25th I visited Quorn, near. Loughborough, in Leicester- 
shire, famous, I believe, for fox-hunting, but hunting for Lepidoptera 
was a different thing. Nothing but common species were taken or 
found. LHpinephele jurtina, Coenonympha pamphilus, Rumicia phlaeas 
and Polyommatus icarus were all very common. Pyrameis atalanta 
and Aglais urticae were now out in fair numbers and had no doubt 
recently emerged as numbers of larve were still to be found. These 
were possibly a second brood. A number of pupe of A. wrticae were 
found hung up on the stems of the nettle. These were the first I 
have ever found in such a situation on their food plant. All were of 
a most beautiful golden colour. I took a number, some for the 
cabinet, the rest to see if the golden pups would produce imagines, 
as I have always heard it stated that they do not. In my case it was 
true, for no imago was produced, nor could I see any reason for the 
failure, as I could find no traces of the pupe being infested with para- 
sites of any sort. 
A friend was going to Southwell Cathedral one Sunday morning 
