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can only reiterate my special thanks to him and Mr. Houghton for 
their kindness and help. There is an amusing side to the entry to 
Wicken. The best collecting grounds (because the most open) are the 
public rights-of-way. One or two men, however, patrol these to turn 
an honest (?) penny by suggesting that it is customary to give a trifle, and 
if this fails they are ready with the fact that you are trespassing on 
“their” ground. The fact of “owners” becoming a species of 
“ cadger ” is very obvious. Another line is to sell tickets at so much 
per head per day or week. One would think that actual owners would 
be above this ; most are, and are very courteous to entomologists into 
the bargain. There is good accommodation to be obtained in Wicken, 
at the Red Lion, Maid’s Head, or if any one prefers it, at Mrs. 
Phillips’ house (The Sycamores). But the lodgings at the pubs, are 
really private, and although I stayed at the Red Lion I never knew but 
that I was in a private house, having a private door, key, etc., to 
myself. 
^^'hen I left Wicken with a number of insects on my setting boards 
and in my store boxes, averaging about 150 per day for the twenty 
days I felt sorry that I could not stay longer to help the native col- 
lectors to continue the work of depopulation. However, I hope to go 
again, and given good weather, the moths will have a bad time of it. — 
J. W. Tutt, Westcombe Hill, S.E. [IMr. G. T. Porritt will give an 
account of the Neuroptera, Orthoptera, and Trichoptera captured, in the 
next number. — Ed.] 
Southend^ Epping Forest, a?id North London . — This season has so 
far been fairly good. The sallows at Southend produced the usual 
Tcenioaunpidce, also Xylocampa lithoriza, Calocampa exoleta, etc. ; while 
Eupithecia pumilata, Anticlea badiata, Coremia ferrugata, a few Aleiicis 
piciaria and other geometers, were plentiful in the evenings. Unfortu- 
nately, the warm nights always brought a strong south-westerly wind, 
which made the sallows hard to work. Lycana argiolns was the only 
notable butterfly I took. Epping Forest has proved very productive, 
Drepa7ia unguicula, Ephy7a trilinearia, and other common things 
swarm, and many others have fallen to my net for the first time. I 
have unfortunately missed the best time of the year (June), owing to an 
attack of influenza, and the weather now precludes any collecting. 
Noctu^ are common on sugar in our garden here. I am waiting for a 
decent night to try my luck further afield. No Apamea ophiogra77i77ia 
have emerged yet, but my pup^ have darkened, and show the p'attern 
of this insect through their skin (these are pupee obtained from larv^ 
feeding on the stems of ribbon grass). I hope to get them out in a day 
or two, if all goes well. — A. U. Battley, Amhurst Park, N. July, 1891. 
Boxhill a7id Ashdown Forest . — Larvae of Cucullia verbasci are very 
plentiful this year at Boxhill, and yesterday Lyccena eegon was flying in 
profusion at Ashdown Forest, also two E7ithe77i07iia russula, female, 
taken in good condition, and even Argynms selene is still about. 
Insects are very late this year, and, owing to that, I have missed 
many things. — A. J. Croker, South Norwood. July, 1891. 
Dart77ioor . — I have found Acidalia p7’077iutata abundant on the nor- 
thern slopes of Dartmoor, at least fifteen to twenty miles from the sea. 
They were to be found by day resting on the granite boulders, which they 
closely resembled, and they also came freely to light. The weather has 
