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plagiata ; Bupolus piniaria flying round the fir-trees near the 
“ Temple-of-Pan,” one male being taken, and a female being seen, 
hut being a high flyer not being captured; Melanippe fluctuata ; 
Asthena can didata ; a “pug” in poor condition, probably Eupithecia 
albreviata ; Cilix glaucata ; one tortrix, Sericoris lacunana ; and 
two Tinese, Nemaphora schwarziella and one not identified. The 
great daddy-long-legs, Tipula gigantea , was seen flying near Grove 
Mill, hut eluded capture. 
The Grove Woods are strictly preserved, hut no game was 
disturbed, the members being careful to respect the conditions 
under which Lord Clarendon always so freely grants permission 
for the Society to visit his estate. 
Field Meeting, 15th June, 1901. 
BUSHEY AND STANMORE COMMON. 
The members, eighteen in number, under the direction of 
Mr. Hopkinson, first visited the Museum attached to the Schools 
of the Clergy Orphan Corporation, St. Margaret’s, Bushey, by 
permission of the Head-mistress, Miss Baylee, who, with Miss 
Hihhert-Ware, the Science teacher, pointed out the chief objects 
of interest. There are numerous minerals and fossils, and botanical 
and zoological specimens. A series of coloured drawings of micro¬ 
scopic objects, well executed by the scholars, was examined with 
much interest, and coloured drawings of Mycetozoa, by Miss 
Hibhert-Ware, who has made a study of this interesting group 
of microscopic fungi, attracted special attention. 
After visiting some other parts of the Schools and the prettily 
decorated Chapel, the party proceeded across Stanmore Common to 
Mrs Brightwen’s residence, “ The Grove.” Some time was spent 
in wandering over the beautiful grounds, which Mrs. Brightwen 
endeavours to make a paradise for wild birds of all kinds, and the 
members were then shown by her some living foreign animals, 
including a colony of the Egyptian sacred beetles ( Scaralceus sacer) 
engaged in forming the well-known globular pellets of excrement 
in which the eggs are laid. The beetle is about an inch long 
and black in colour, and the halls, which it forms by rolling the 
substance by means of its hind legs, are much larger than itself, 
sometimes, when completed, being an inch and a half in diameter. 
Beturning across the Common, the members had tea, on their 
way to Watford, at the Alpine Coffee Tavern. 
Field Meeting, 22nd June, 1901. 
GREAT GADDESDEN, NETTLEDEN, AND FRITHSDEN. 
This meeting was under the direction of Mr. A. F. Crossman, 
who conducted a party of the members and their friends from 
Boxmoor to Great Gaddesden, Nettleden, and Frithsden, and 
thence across the Common to Berkhamsted. 
