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believe, if well worked, there are many other species beyond those I 
have met with yet to be taken in the district. From the number of 
different species I have casually taken, viz.^ 317, including micros, I 
have no doubt that Forest Hill must have been at no distant past date 
a very capital entomological hunting ground; but, unfortunately, like 
most of our suburban districts, the builders, by their operations, have 
destroyed many of the foodplants of the larvae, and so driven the insects 
further afield. I propose leaving the micros to be dealt with in the 
next month’s Record^ and to confine my present notes to those species 
of macros taken by me and not referred to by Mr. Turner in his list, 
viz., Sesia myopce.formis, one at rest on a fence, June 29th, 1885 ; Cilix 
glaucata, two at rest on a hedge ; Lophopteryx camelina, one at rest, 
July 19th, 1887; Cymatophora fluctuosa^^on^ on a fence, June 3rd, 
1886; Acronycta {Ciispidid) tridensp common on fences; Hydrmcia 
micacea, one on a gas lamp ; Dipterygia scabriuscula, several in various 
parts of the district on fences ; Apamea basilinea, two at rest on fences; 
Miana fasciu 7 icida, one on a fence on June 24th, 1886; M. arcuosa, 
two in June, 1885 ; Grammesia trigrafnmica, one specimen flying over 
a hedge, June 8th, 1886 ; Caradrina morpheus, common ; Triphana 
ianthma, on/s only, indoors at light; Tceniocampa incerta, one at light; 
Anchocelis pistacma, one on a gas lamp ; 'Hadena pisi, pne at rest 
indoors ! Cucullia chamomillce, one at rest on a railing on May i8th, 
1886; C. umbratica, one on an oak fence, July 15th, 1885; Erastria 
fasciana, one on July 24th, 1886 ; Habrostola triplasia, one flying in a 
garden on June 30th, 1886 ; Gonoptera libatrix, two flying over a 
hedge ; Mania maiira, common ; Zanclognatha griseaiis and tarsi- 
pen 7 ialis, one of each on the wing ; Hypena rostralis, one indoors 
and one on a fence ; Selenia biliinaria, fairly common ; S. lunaria, 
one on the wing on June ist, 1886 ; Odontopera bidentata, one 
on a fence; Himera pennaria, one on a gas lamp on November 
20th, 1886 ; A 7 nphidasys strataria, several on fences in April, 1886, 
but not common ; A. betularia, one only on June 2nd, 1886 ; Tephrosia 
biu 7 idularia, one specimen only ; lodis lactearia, one on the wing on 
July I St, 1886 ; Phorodes 77 ia pustulata, one beaten from a hedge in 
June, 1888; He 77 iithea strigata, one on a fence at Honor Oak; Asthe 7 ia 
ca 7 ididata, two on the wing close to Dulwich Wood ; Acidalia dimi- 
diata, trige 77 imaia and dilutaria, one of each on flight on July 3rd, 
1885 ; Acidalia aversata, common on fences; Ti 7 na 7 idra a 77 iataria, two 
on the wing on July ist, 1886 ; Cabera pusaria, two only at rest on 
fences ; Lo 77 iaspilis 77 iarginata, one at rest on June 22nd, 1889 ; 
Eupithecia isogra 77 wiata, two only at rest on fences ; E. hidigata, one 
at light on July 3rd, 1885, and one on a fence July 13th, 1888 ; E. 
exiguata, fairly common ; E. sobrinata, four specimens at different 
dates on fences; E. pu 77 iilata, three on fences in July, 1888; Thera 
variata, two at rest in June, 1886 ; Melanthia ocellata, one specimen on 
the wing on May i8th, 1886 ; Melanippe sociata, common on fences 
near Dulwich Wood ; A 7 iiiclea badiata, common on hedges in May ; 
Core 77 iia unidentaria, several specimens at different times on fences ; 
Eucos 77 iia certata, one at rest on May 8th, 1887 ; Cidaria triuicata, one 
specimen at rest on June 8th, 1886 ; C. associata, common everywhere ; 
Aglossa pinguinalis, three specimens indoors ; Scopa 7 'ia basistrigalisy 
one on a fence on June 30th, 1888 ; S. zelleri, one on May 4th, 888 ; 
^ These are remarkable as London insects. — E d. 
