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THE NATURALIST, 



Physa liypnorum occasionally car- 

 nivorous. — Having collected some 

 specimens of Physa hypnorum, and 

 being desirous of keeping them 

 alive, I put them into a glass along 

 with two specimens ofLiihncea auri- 

 cularia: looking at them a day or 

 two after I was surprised to find 

 three empty shells of P. hypnorum, 

 but could find no trace whatever of 

 their bodies ; I immediately blamed 

 the L. auricularia for the mischief 

 done and put them into another glass, 

 on looking again three or four days 

 after I found some more shells emp- 

 ty, but this time caught five or six 

 of the real delinquents busily feed- 

 ing on the dead body of one of their 

 comrades, and one of the empty 

 shells had a rather large hole in the 

 whorl next to ihe body whorl. — W. 

 Nelson, Freehold-street, Leeds. 



Some of the Rarer Moths found 

 AT High Wycombe. 



Smerinthus ocellatus. Very fine im- 

 ago taken 1864, in an orchard. 



8. Tilim. Imago brought to me last 

 year (ls63). 



Acherontia atropos. There have been 

 five larvae taken this year from po- 

 tato grounds, of which I had two 

 very fine ones. 



Sphinx convolviili. Very fine imago 

 taken in 1863, in a garden. 



S. ligustri. Larvae and imagos taken 

 1864. 



Macroglossa stellatarum. Two imagos 

 caught hovering over geraniums 

 in a garden, 1864. 



Zeuzera (bscuU. Dean Garden Wood. 



Cossus ligniperda, ( larvae only from 

 cherry tree). Wycombe Marsh. 



Procris staticcs. Wycombe Marsh. 



Ourapieryx sambucata. Four Ashes. 



Tephrosia consnnaria. Keep Hill. 



Metrocampa margaritaria. In the 

 woods. 



Geometra p)apilionaria. Marlow Hill. 



Arnphydasis hetularia. Wycombe 

 Park. 



Abraxas ulmata. Downley. 



Strenia clathrata. Very widely dis- 

 tributed. — Hy. Ullyett. 



Scottish Summits. — No. I. 

 (Ben Venue.) 

 July 4th, 1864. Ben Venue, like 

 so many of the Southern Grampians, 

 consists of mica schist, intersected 

 with veins of quartz. Its height is 

 2388 feet. On the ascent from the Tro- 

 sachs I first observed the Alchemilla 

 alpina, readily distinguished from its 

 sister of the plains by the silky 

 under-coating of the foliage. A tiny 

 willow (Salix herhacea) was creeping 

 abundantly among the boulders on 

 the top, and gave evidence of having 

 flowered, though shyly. Its reticu- 

 lated leaves were blistered by small 

 red galls, each containing the larva 

 of a Tenthredo. This willow is 

 usually indicative of a micaceous 

 soil. The moss that chiefly clothes 



