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I did not pay much attention to tlie Pterophori, except to the rose 

 feeding rhododactylus, but Uthodactylus is very plentiful amongst 

 Inula dysenterica ; and the snow-white pentadactylus is, as might be 

 expected equally abundant and generally distributed. 



This paper thus far has treated only of such species as occur at 

 Chattenden, and its immediate vicinity. Those, however, who go 

 there for two or three weeks, and like to vary the collecting as much 

 as possible, have ample scope for so doing ; as short excursions for 

 an afternoon's or evening's work may very easily be made from either 

 Strood or Higham. By sugaring in the Thames marshes several 

 good species are taken, such as Leucania pudorina and straminea, 

 Senta uhce, very dark Agrotis c/irsoria • pupae of Nonagria geminipuncta 

 in the reed stems, and many other species. Off Gravesend, too, larvge 

 of the very local Bomhyx caslreusis occur, and indeed a little earlier in 

 the spring are collected there in the greatest profusion. A. few hours 

 on the Downs will furnish a good series of Lyccena Corydon ; with the 

 gay llythyia carntlla, Botys hyalinalis, &c. In fact pleasant and 

 profitable outings may be made all around the district. 



The country around Chattenden is all a lover of nature can 

 require, and is in fact a perfect example of " the sunny south." 

 The immense hop fields, the cherry orchards, the old chalk pits about 

 Hisiham overgrown with luxnrient vegetation, or, as is sometimes the 

 case, made into a prolific garden or orchard, with the owner s cottage 

 built in the midst are things which we dwellers in northern smoky 

 towns know little of. The picturesque railway station at Higham, 

 enlivened all round'with its numerous nightingales and other feathered 

 songsters, I have already written of in this Journal {Nat. vol. v.. p. 1()8). 

 My Sunday morning's walk last May from Higham up to the beautiful 

 little church on Gad's Hill, about a mile away, and where lived our 

 great novelist Charles Dickens : and the evening at Rochester 

 Cathedral (Rochester being only separated from Strood by the river's 

 bridge), will not be soon forgotten. Nor will another morning's 

 walk, before breakfast, over the grounds of the old Rochester Castle. 

 But why need I write longer 1 Surely I have said enough to commend 

 the spot to everyone who has the leisure and opportunity of visiting it. 



Highroyd House, 



Huddersfield, February, 1881. 



