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and extremely succulent balsam, a North American plant, 

 which is spreading with extreme rapidity throughout Surrey. 

 Briza media was growing by the canal side, and Genista 

 anglica, the badge of the Plantagenets, in the damp ground 

 beyond, where also was a bed of Cardwis pratense, a not- 

 common thistle, which was just coming into flower. Like 

 the Mollusca, however, the Flora of Byfleet requires a day to 

 itself. 



" But I must not neglect the Lepidoptera, which, however, 

 did not thrust themselves upon our notice during the after- 

 noon ; they were more in evidence during the evening. For 

 what I have to say in connection with this order I am chiefly 

 indebted to the notes forwarded by Messrs. Sich and Kaye. 

 Others were promised, but the Kingston postman must have 

 been remiss in his duties. The onlj' butterflies, whose 

 names were returned to me, were Pieris brassicce, P. rapce, 

 P. napi and Hesperia sylvanus. The moths were as follow : — 

 Hepialus lupuliniis, large and well-marked forms ; Ectropis 

 (Tephrosia) punctidaria, one specimen on a pine-trunk ; Eupis- 

 teria obliterata (lieparata), plentiful at dusk near alder, its 

 food-plant ; Hydriomena (Hypsipetes) trifasciata (impluviata) , 

 one specimen on pine-trunk ; Mysticoptera (Lobophora) sexa- 

 lisata, one specimen on one of the lamps at Byfleet station ; 

 Leucophthalmia (Zonosoma) pendtdaria, one specimen ; Eticlidia 

 glyphica abundant in one meadow by the side of the canal ; 

 Euclidia mi, worn ; Nymphida stagnata, N. stratiotata (one), 

 Hydrocampa nymphcealis, and Cataclysta lemnalis over water 

 plants by canal ; Hadena dentina, one at rest on a fence ; 

 Cabera piisaria (two) ; C. exanthemaria, both females ; Cidaria 

 corylata, netted after 7 p.m. by Mr. Sich (Mr. Turner took 

 a well-marked form with a slightly yellow tinge) ; Crambtis 

 pratellus (one) ; Halonota scuttdana ; eight species of Tortricina 

 taken by Mr. Sich and not yet named ; one Dasycera olivicr- 

 ella; Micvopteryx calthella, two males in flowers of Ranunculus ; 

 one Symcethis fabriciana ; three or four Alticita polydactyla 

 about the hedges. 



"Larvae noticed were Porthesia similis on sallow and other 

 food plants ; Psetidoterpna pruinata on broom ; Eucestia (Che- 

 sias) spartiata, both yellow and green forms, on broom. 



"Tea was taken early, that an hour or so might be spent 

 afterwards by the side of the canal. Not only did this prove 

 profitable as far as the collection of Lepidoptera was con- 

 cerned, but the fine summer evening was most enjoyable. 

 And it was worth catching a later train to see the canal and 

 its surroundings under a new aspect. When after sunset 



