EPPING FOREST.
ITS MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES.
" So likewise are the forests compounded things ; for it is
the variety of creatures in it that makes this terrestrial globe
wherein we live so beautiful and full of delight."—Anony-
mous Writer, 1634.
A large number of collectors visit the Forest
armed with butterfly-nets. I need therefore offer
no excuse for adding the following list, which does
not profess to be exhaustive, prepared by a local
entomologist of long experience, of some of his
more important " catches " of rare or local species
which are indigenous to the Forest, together with
the positions in which they are most likely to
occur.
Vanessa antiopa (The Camberwell Beauty). One specimen.
Epping Lower Forest.
Thecla betulae (The Brown Hairstreak). Larvae on black-
thorn. Fairmead.
Lycaena aegon (The Silver-studded Blue). On rushes at the
back of the King's Oak.
Macroglossa fuciformis (The Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-
Moth). On the flowers of ragged robin at the back of
King's Oak.
Macroglossa bombyliformis (The Narrow-bordered Bee
Hawk-Moth). On the flowers of ragged robin at the
back of King's Oak.
Limacodes asellus (The Triangle). Between Loughton and
Wake Arms.