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When the sun got low we sat down to partake of our evening meal, but, 

 as it appeared to be also the midges' dinner hour, it was not long before we 

 got up again. At dusk there were but few moths about, but we netted single 

 specimens of L. pectiniiaria, A. suhsericata, M. subtristata, C. corylala, and 

 C. exanthemaria ; and we took one larva of C, glabraria, on some lichen on the 

 trunk of a oak. We heard a grasshopper warbler, and saw several woodcocks. 



At sugar we met with greater success than usual, taking six exquisite T. 

 batis and one M. abjecta. It is a thousand pities that Balis fades so terribly 

 after death. To my mind when its colours are still fresh, it is the most 

 beautiful of all the British moths. On this evening we went home rather 

 earlier than usual, having some distance to walk back to Lyndhurst. Here 

 it may be remarked, that when sugaring, our first round (which we go as 

 soon as it becomes dark), is almost invariably, at all places and at all seasons, 

 the most productive ; and this is the case even when the trees are re-sugared 

 several times. 



On the 17th there was a cold north-west wind blowing, but the sun was 

 bright and warm, and in sheltered spots insects were fairly numerous. About 

 11 a.m., we started across the White Moor, which lies north-east of Lynd- 

 hurst, and here we found E. atomaria, as usual, flying in great numbers over 

 the heather. After crossing Matley Passage (where the grasshopper warbler 

 was singing again), and topping the bank opposite, we turned off to the 

 right through the sand-pit, and made our way among the old trees which 

 stand outside the enclosure, until we found ourselves close to Denny Lodge. 

 Among the old trees we heard and saw numerous ring and turtle doves, and 

 also several green woodpeckers. These birds are fairly plentiful in the 

 Forest, but there are hardly as many as one might expect in such a place. 

 Here, too, we found one specimen of S,fagi, one or two E. trilinearia, one 

 B. consortaria, and one D. orion, on tree trunks ; the two former species on 

 those of beech, and three latter on those of oak. In addition to the above, 

 specimens of Y. impluviata, L. ruhricollis, L. pectinitaria, and P. <%nea 3 were 

 taken with the net. On and around one tree, the bark of which appeared to 

 be getting rotten, was a perfect swarm of Aricia pallida ; Eupis lessellata 

 (one), Lioctria baumhaiien (one), and Dryomyzza flaveola (2) were also cap- 

 tured. In a sunny sheltered glade, immediately above Denny Lodge, a fine 

 M, fuciformis was flying over some flowers of Pedicularis sylvatica, but 

 though approached with the utmost caution it was off like an arrow, before a 

 net could be got within striking distance, and we saw it no more. 



We now turned to our left, and descending a wooded slope came to the 

 edge of Denny Bog. Then keeping the Bog on our right, we made a com- 

 plete circuit of it. When close to Woodfidley Passage, which is beside the 



