ITS MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES.
Lithosia complana (The Scarce Footman). On pollard oaks.
Lithosia quadra (The Four Spotted Footman). Opposite the
Wake Arms.
Euchelise jacobaeae (The Cinnabar). Used to be common
on ragwort by the side of Epping Road; now scarce.
Euthemonia russula (The Clouded Buff). Bogs and damp
heathy places by Theydon Road.
Arctia fuliginosa (The Ruby Tiger). Larvae on herbaceous
plants. Late autumn.
Demas coryli (The Nut-Tree Tussock). Larvae on beech.
Occurs throughout the Forest; nowhere common.
Poecilocampa populi (The December Moth). Larvae on trunks
of oak. Scarce.
Lasiocampa quercifolia (The Lappet Moth). Larvae on
sallows, old gravel-pits by the Wake Arms.
Selenia lunaria (The Lunar Thorn). Beaten out from horn-
beam.
Selenia illustraria (The Purple Thorn). Beaten out from
whitethorn.
Ennomos erosaria (The September Thorn). Larvae found on
oak trees.
Boarmia roboraria (The Great Oak Beauty). Oak trunks.
Epping Upper Forest.
Tephrosia consonaria (The Square Spot). Old beech trunks.
Monk Wood.
Tephrosia extersaria (The Brindled White Spot). Oak
trunks.
Ephyra porata (The False Mocha). Damp places at the
back of the King's Oak.
Cabera rotundaria. Epping Lower Forest.
Aleucis pictaria. Old blackthorns. Fairmead.
Numeria pulveraria (The Barred Umbo). Amongst beeches.
Lobophora viretata. Old beeches. Monk Wood. Very
rare.
Cidaria silaceata. Damp places, where Epilobium parvi-
florum grows.
Anaitis plagiata. Theydon Thickets.
Platypteryx hamula. On oaks. Fairmead.
Stauropus fagi (The Lobster Moth). Beech trunks. Monk
Wood.
Notodonta camelina (The Coxcomb Prominent). Beech
trunks. Monk Wood.
Notodonta ziczac (The Pebble Prominent). Larvae on dwarf
sallow.
Notodonta trepida (The Large Prominent). Oak trunks.
Notodonta chaonia. Pollard oaks. Borders of Monk
Wood.