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da mines, Nisionades tages and Syrichthus malvce are to be found 
throughout Flying in company with the butterflies in the Monkswood 
section, are swarms of Ematurga atomaria and P. petraria , with an oc¬ 
casional Phytometra cenea ( viridaria ). 
Tree trunks during the month (May) are very productive. In the 
Monkswood portion, Demas coryli ,, Dasychirapudibunda, Arctia mendica 
and Tephrosia consonaria; in the Chingford section, Cidaria corylata , 
and throughout the Forest, No la cristulalis , Cuspidia psi , Amphidasys 
betularia , T. biundularia , Eupithecia abbreviata and Coremia propug- 
natd are to be found. Of these D. pudibunda, C. psi, T. biundularia , 
C. propugnata and C. corylata are abundant. The psi are usually 
light coloured, but occasionally var. suffusa is met with. T. consonaria 
may be taken in some numbers, but is very local. N cristulalis 
(which sits head downwards) is not very common, but is well dis¬ 
tributed. They have been seen sitting on beech, hornbeam, birch 
and oak, and are rather conspicuous on the two first named trees. 
One larva was crawling over a beech trunk on July 25. Of A. 
betularia , Arctia mendica , and E. abbreviata , only a few have been 
picked up each year. One specimen of Eupithecia dodoneata was 
taken on the 19th May, 1890, at rest on an oak trunk in the Wake 
Arms section. Light during the month is usually only productive of a 
few E. vulgata , and Eubolia ceriata. Beating is, perhaps, an even more 
productive mode of collecting at this time of the year than searching 
the trunks. The four “ hooktips ” are sometimes plentiful, Drepana 
cultraria occurring in Monkswood, lacertinaria and falcataria in the 
Monkswood and Wake Arms sections, and binaria throughout. The 
males of cultraria flit about in the sunshine commonly, and on the 
31st May, 1891, binaria was flying in some numbers in the glades 
near Fair mead. Among the Geometry, Venilia maculata , Ephyra 
punctaria , Bapta temerata and tamin at a, Melanippe montanata , 
Coremia unidentaria and ferrugata in the Chingford section, and 
Melanthia ocellata , Ephyra linearia , Acidalia remutaria , Asthena candi- 
data , and Lomaspilis marginata in the Monkswood and Wake Arms 
divisions are to be knocked out. E . linearia is often quite a 
nuisance. Eurymene dolobraria and N pulveraria have been taken 
in the Chingford and Monkswood sections. Among the footmen 
Lithosia aureola (. sororcula ) may occasionally be disturbed near Ching¬ 
ford, or seen flying late in the afternoon. One specimen of E. porata 
fell to the beating stick in the same locality. At dusk, Hepialus 
lupulinus , Apamea. basilinea , Noctua plecta, Jodis lade aria, Emmelesia 
albulata and decolorata and Z. adustata are to be found in the 
Chingford Forest. E. decolorata and Z. adustata are only taken 
sparingly, the others are common. 
In June a few good larvae have been met with. Several full-fed 
Halias bicolorana have been found crawling over oak trunks in the 
Monkswood section. Last year, on the 20th, one larva of Thecla 
betulce was beaten at the very first stroke from a sloe bush, but 
though a great many bushes were beaten afterwards, the only further 
result was a good sprinkling of the larvae of Nola cucullatella. The larva 
of Diloba coeruleocephala is common on sloe at Chingford, and that 
of P. cyiisaria may be taken in the Monkswood section. Beating is 
fairly productive. A. luteata from small maples near Chingford and 
in Epping Lower Forest, Larentia pedinitaria in Monkswood and 
