THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
27 
Doings at Sherwood Forest. — On 
Wednesday, August 20tli. in com- 
pany with my friend the Rev. Sir C. 
R. Lighton, Bart, I made a little 
expedition to Sherwood Forest, to try 
and capture F. Fulvago. My expe- 
dition however, had I been alone, 
would have prematurely terminated 
at the interesting town of Derby, for, 
upon presenting a £10 note at the 
booking office, I was informed by the 
ticket issuer, with the utmost nonch- 
alance, that they could not, and would 
not take a Bank of England note ! 
My companion fortunately had gold 
and I was enabled to proceed ; but he 
exercised a tyrannous sway over me 
in consequence, threatening, if I was 
not amenable to his authority, to 
leave me at some Station, with the 
£10. note in my pocket. We arrived 
at Edwinstowe, a pretty little village 
bordering the Forest, about 4. p.m. 
In the stables of the inn at Worksop, 
we boxed some fine Farinalis, which 
we both wanted. On our way from 
Worksop to Edwinstowe we picked 
up some larvae of Absynthiata and 
Centaureata off ragwort. I also found 
one larva of a Euphithccia on the 
common toadflax. I did not recog- 
nize it, but it is probably only Casti- 
gata. The road lies through the 
“ Dukeries,” so called from the 
property belonging to the Dukes of 
Newcastle and Portland. There is, I 
am sure, some splendid hunting 
ground here, about three miles from 
Worksop, but we could not stop to 
try it. On Wednesday evening we 
sugared. As I have already stated, 
our ostensible object was Fulvago, 
but I may as well state at once, that 
we did not see the ghost of one. I 
think we were too early, as the last 
week in August, and the beginning 
of September are, I think, the best 
time for it, and the allied species. 
However, we were not particular, 
and my companion took a fine series 
of Pyramidea, which he wanted for 
his cabinet. This was the only 
species we saw at sugar, and the 
next night, we saw “ nothing,” 
which latter, in my opinion, is the 
insect one generally does see at sugar, 
we took, however, beautiful speci- 
mens of C. Graminis on the wing. I 
had not seen the insect alive for 
fifteen years. The next morning we 
tried a little digging, but as there 
are very few trees about, we soon 
gave it up, and went into the forest. 
Here we devoted our energies, for the 
rest of the day, to beating for larvae. 
Among others we took Dromedarius, 
Falcataria, Leporina, Myrtilli, Punc- 
taria, Pendularia, Nanata, Minutata, 
&c. Jn the evening we tried sugar 
again, with the success already 
named. I took however a specimen 
of S. Anomala flying. I had never 
taken one before. “We were obliged 
to return home, the next day, and 
though we had failed in the imme- 
diate object of our expedition, we 
thoroughly enjoyed it. The weather 
was beautiful, and the grand old 
Forest is a glorious place. I can, by 
no means omit to mention the very 
kind and obliging assistance we re- 
ceived from Mr. Tudsbury and his 
