A FORTNIGHT IN THE NEW FOREST IN JULY. 171 
since my first visit in 1891. A great part of my time was spent 
in quietly observing ants’ nests; the results of these investigations, 
however, I hope to publish shortly in my ‘“‘ Myrmecophilous Notes for 
1918.” It was a great pleasure to see so many butterflies about; the 
White Admiral (Limenitis sibilla) and the Silver-washed Fritillary 
(Dryas paphia and var. valesina) occurring in the utmost profusion in 
all the glades, etc., flying about and settling on flowers of bramble. I 
met a lepidopterist (who being a middle-aged man like myself, was 
waiting to be called up for his Medical Board for the Army, a pleasure 
in store, which I had already experienced) who showed me several 
specimens of paphia with confluent marks, a rare form, which I sub- 
sequently saw, but was unable to catch with my heavy sweeping net. 
Many couples of paphia were observed in cop., and both the g and 9 
were seen to carry the other in flight; a fact, however, which is pro- 
bably well known. The Large Tortoise-shell (Huvanessa polychloros) 
was noted on several occasions near the hotel; its larve, I am told, 
feed up on a sallow tree in the hotel garden. One very small specimen 
of the Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) was taken on the road ; and 
I made great efforts to catch a Small Copper (Rumicia phlaeas) which 
had the right hindwing entirely white; but failed to do so. A num- 
ber of large Psychid cases occurred in the hotel garden, fastened to the 
fences round the same. A pair of the moth Mamestra brassicae, in 
cop., was noted on the wall of the bridge; they were situated back to 
back, their colour, not quite normal, exactly matching the lichen- 
covered stone-work. 
A few Diptera were taken ; Miltogramma conica in a sand pit; the 
large E'chinomyia grossa, which is parasitic on the “ Fox Moth” cater- 
pillar, was not uncommon on bracken, etc.; a nice specimen of Alo- 
phora hemiptera v. obscura, with the wings very dark (Collin tells me 
this is the darkest form he has seen), was captured on a mossy tree 
trunk ; and a very large Tabanus (T. bovinus) was picked up on the 
road, alive but apparently stupified. 
Some of the Hymenoptera, not including the ants, may be men- 
tioned :—? 9? of Mutilla ewropea and Myrmosa melanocephala were 
found in a sand-pit, a favourite collecting ground of former years (I 
had caused a shallow trench to be dug all round beneath the over- 
hanging bank, a fact which did not meet with the approval of the 
woodman who dwelt near by; however, all’s well that ends well!). 
Just near this spot I took a female of the Mutilla in 1914 running 
over half-a-crown, and other silver coins amounting in all to 7/6 were 
lying beneath the 2/6; a curious find in a place like the Forest! The 
following Bees, Fossors, and Sawflies were taken by me for my friend, 
the Rev. F. D. Morice: Halictus prasinus, Ephecodes pilifrons, Dasy- 
poda hirtipes, Anthophora 4-maculata, Hpcolus rufipes, Nomada obtusi- 
frons and Panuryus calcaratus ; Pompilus spinus, P. rufipes, Ammophila 
campestris and Mellinus arvensis; Pteronidea pavida, Tenthredella livida 
and 7. balteata. Other Hymenoptera captured with their prey were— 
Crabro peltarius with a fly ; C. christosoma, dug out of alder with its 
burrows filled with a Syrphid fly; several Pompilus plumbews with the 
Spider Husperys erraticus; and Agenia varieyata dragging a spider 
(Segestria sp.) along on a felled tree. 
A g of the common cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis) was found 
under bark of oak in an enclosure far away from any houses or dwell- 
