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examined. Last year a large percentage were blue. Purdy told me 
the spring 2 s were very blue. 
Phlaas, third brood, were very early, and well out August 15th 
to 20th, and continued emerging well on to September. I put in a 
good many days at them and secured some nice vars.: four with 
absence of bands, two nice underside vars., and many minor ones; 
blue spotted specimens were fairly common, also dark ones. 
1 captured a fine C. edusa on September 16th, a $ , the only one I 
have seen this year. Hadena pisi came to sugar in fine condition on 
September 15th. This looks like a second brood. 
On September 16th, while collecting larvae of 1’. atalanta which 
were found in all sizes, some very small, I found several large third 
brood larvte of V. urticae, these were all small ; I reared all, but no 
vars. emerged. I found the second brood of urticae very scarce in the 
neighbourhood of Bexley, in fact, only one small brood, though I 
turned out several hundred imagines earlier in the year. 
At the end of September I spent my first real week’s holiday for 
over 14 years and a most enjoyable time I had at Bournemouth, as 
the guest of Mr. Bright, who very kindly devoted nearly every day to 
taking me about to places of interest, including Swanage, Studland 
Bay, and the New Forest. I had never been to the latter district before 
and we had a most enjoyable cycle ride from Bournemouth via. 
Ringwood, Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst; strange to say we met 
Mr. Morris, who told us there were no Autumn lame this year. The 
following day Mr. Bright was engaged, so though I had made up my 
mind to be “ off” collecting I could not resist taking a “ Bignall ” and 
some boxes and finding my way to Brockenhurst, I had no idea where 
to work and great fears of getting lost, however, I struck off into the 
Forest and spent the day whacking, and I think there were some lame; 
anyhow I bagged over 500, among them Deivas coryli, Dicranura 
furcula, Selenia lunaria, Boarmia consortaria, Eurymene dolobraria, 
Daxychira pudibunda, Hylophila prasinana, bicolorana, Bupalus piniaria, 
Amphidasys betularia, B. roboraria, Zonosoina porata, punctaria, and 
many others. I did not get lost as I struck the railway and by following 
it got back to Brockenhurst just before dark. My first experience of 
the New Forest as a collecting ground was decidedly favourable. 
I have had more than enough of breeding this year with the 
thermometer reading 96° in the shade day after day. It is no joke when 
in a glasshouse and with larvte to keep from being baked alive. One 
instance this year of larvse being baked alive is with A. grossulariata, 
which, though sleeved out in the garden on growing trees, were nearly 
all killed in August. 
In breeding on the huge scale which I do, one expects some surprises, 
and the greatest of this year is the race of melanic E. angulana ( querci - 
naria), the parents of which were quite typical. Last year I bred out 
several hundreds of the London strain and paired some half dozen, all 
normal specimens; the larvte were sleeved on oak in the spring and 
fed up rapidly owing no doubt to the heat, and produced rather under¬ 
sized pupae; from these I bred 40 melanic specimens. The heat was 
so intense when they were emerging that they would not keep still in 
the day. Many were rubbed with flying in the day. I spoilt four 
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