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Aureola, and Smith one. Having arrived at the Woodman, we had a rest, 

 and disposed of two' pots of ale between us, and after our afternoon's work 

 (for it was now about six) it went down very sweet. Another thing we ob- 

 tained here was a good wash, and this made us quite fresh, so off we went into 

 the forest again, thinking to get a lot more Aureola, as it was a beautiful 

 evening ; in this, however, we were disappointed, for strange to say we hardly 

 saw any insects at all. Smith obtained one Aureola, I got two Corylata, and 

 Russell got one so after knocking about for some we determined to 

 go home and started off to the station; I taking C.Spinula on the way. We 

 caught the 8.27 train nicely, and I was soon home. The condition of our 

 boots and trousers when we had finished for the day was beyond description. 



1 had mud up to my knees, and my feet were soaking wet owing to the water 

 having come over the tops of my boots. But I soon changed my things, and 

 after having eaten a good dinner I examined my captures. I found that I 

 had 54 specimens comprising 21 species, seven of which were new to my col- 

 lection. The following list shows the respective quantities : — 6 Aureola, 



2 Corylata, 1 Spitiula, 4 Pulveraria, 1 Derivata, 1 Badiata, 1 Cardamines, 

 2 Alveolus, 2 JEqeria, 2 Napi, 8 Ferrugata, 1 Ocellata, 3 Remutata, 5 Can- 

 didata, 4 Temerata, 3 Jacohcea, 1 Petraria, 2 Suhtristata, 8 Maculata, 1 Pam- 

 pkiltcs, 1 Punctaria. I obtained 26 ova from a female Pulveraria. The 

 larvae in the forest were very plentiful but small. I did not bring any home. 



No. 2. — CAVERSHAM WARREN. 



By JOHN HENDERSON. 

 In these long winter evenings, a glance back at old note books will refresh 

 the memory, and bring to mind a brighter state of things when insects were 

 plentiful, and the Entomologist in his element. Probably no occurrence of 

 late years has obtained such a hold on the minds of many observers as the 

 extraordinary swarms of P. Gamma, in 1879, the summer in which C. Cardui 

 was also very abundant. During four days in August of that year, with head 

 quarters fixed at Caversham Bridge, near Reading, the writer was working 

 the chalk pits and pine woods, of Caversham Warren, a long hilly ground on 

 the Oxfordshire bank of Father Thames, extending nearly all the way from 

 the pretty church of Caversham to Maple Durham House, the seat of the 

 Blount family, whose ancestors frequently entertained King Charles I. 



The soil is mostly chalk, and having a south aspect, the hills are very pro- 

 ductive, in fact it was a well-known saying in Reading that all good insects 

 could be found " in The Warren." Without going so far as that, I must 

 say there were few empty boxes after a trip to that locality, however shorty 



