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intent on entomology, and reported a most successful day. 

 They have kindly furnished me with a list of their chief 

 captures as follows : — 



Moths : Common Heath, Small Argent and Sable, Garden 

 Carpet, Re|d Twin-spot Carpet, Narrow-winged Pug, Chinese 

 Character, Beautiful Yellow Underwing. They also secured 

 about twenty species of lepidopterous larvag as follows : — • 

 Muslin (common, feeding on lichin on stone walls). Pale Oak 

 Egger (only 4 obtained, feeding on heather), Oak Egger (on 

 heather), December Moth (3 larvae on hawthorn), Scalloped 

 Oak, Pale Brindled Beauty (common), Early Moth (common), 

 Dotted Border (common). Mottled Umber, Winter Moth 

 (common), Northern Winter Moth (common on birch), 

 Autumnal Moth, Figure of Eight Moth, Yellow Horned 

 Moth (common on birch). Satellite, Minor Shoulder Knot, 

 Green Brindled Crescent (common). Marvel du Jour, Grey 

 Chi, Common Quaker, and Two-spot Carpet. 



The majority of the above were obtained by beating bushes 

 above a tray. 



The principal flowering plants were as follows :- 



]\Iarsh Marigold 



Hairy Bittercress 



Milkwort 



Red Campion 



Wood Stitchwort 



Broom 



Wood Bitter Vetch 



Common Vetch 



Tufted Vetch 



Water Avens 



Tormentil 



Stone Bramble 



Wood Sanicle 



Succory-leafed Hawksbeard 



Melancholy Thistle 



Goldilocks 



Ox-eye Daisy 



Brooklime 



Cow Wheat 



Wood Forget-me-not 



Early Purple Orchis 



Ferns. 



Male Fern 

 Female Fern 

 Spinulose Buckler 

 Black Spleenwort 



Prickly Shield 

 Hard Fern 

 Mountain Buckler 

 Oak Fern 



