4650 Insects. 



is, in other words, it is not by reasoning but by revelation, not by 

 philosophy but by faith. 



I add to this paper a list of the butterflies and moths (to the end of 

 the Sphingidae) which I have captured or observed during the last 

 few years in this neighbourhood. The country I have worked has 

 been geologically favourable, consisting of chalk, upper green sand, 

 lower green sand and London clay. Botanically, it is perfect ; the 

 chalk offers magnificent beech woods and hangers, and downs studded 

 with yews, junipers and furze : the clay boasts of its oak woods, 

 which extend, almost without break, from Chichester to Southampton; 

 and the few old primaeval trees still remaining tell us that the ancient 

 British Forest of Anderida stood hereabouts, now partly represented 

 by the Forest of Bere : the undergrowth consists of birch, holly, black- 

 thorn, whitethorn, buckthorn, &c. : the sand can still pride itself in an 

 unreclaimed heath, and, where enclosed, is entomologically improved 

 by plantations of larch and Scotch fir. If the list is still far from 

 perfect, and does not yet boast of C. sponsa, C. promissa and T. sub- 

 sequa, I plead in return that Entomology is not my profession, and 

 what I have done and hope to do is achieved by half-hours now and 

 then ; but, if I may be allowed to contort the passage, I endeavour to 

 have " nulla dies sine Linnaeo." 



List. — Butterflies. 



Pieris crataegi. In and near woods, June. Not common. 

 „ Brassicae, Rapae, Napi, A. Cardamines. Common. 

 Leucophasia Sinapis. Not common ; May and August. 

 Gonepteryx Rhamni. Common ; double-brooded. 

 Colias Edusa. Common some years, along the railway from Chi- 

 chester to Havant, and adjoining fields, &c. 



„ „ var. Helice. I have taken three specimens of this 



variety. 



„ Hyale. Five specimens, one in the Isle of Wight, the rest 

 at the same place as C. Edusa. 



Thecla Betulae. In Woolmer Forest and Forest of Bere ; September. 

 „ Quercus. Ashford, near Petersfield and Forest of Bere. 

 „ Rubi. Same as above. 

 Chrysophanus Phlaeas. Common. 

 Polyommatus Argiolus. In the garden at Ashford, occasionally. 



