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be called a good cabinet specimen. The Clergyman previously referr- 

 ed to has obtained several this year the exact number I do not know, 

 a few coming to light. He has also two, bred from larvae found by 

 his gardener. A gentleman from London has also visited the locality 

 and ''taken a small series" in the vicinity of Dawlish. By the 

 foregoing we have records of captures of Hera from Exeter to 

 Teignmouth, at least 13 miles as the crow flies and over 1 5 by rail. 

 We have it also recorded that two captures were made at Hazlewood, 

 a small village on the river Avon : and I have, myself, reliable 

 information of two specnnens taken near Plymouth a few years since. 

 In considering this question it should be remembered that during 

 dull and damp weather, of which we generally get a preponderance 

 at this time of the year, the moth is very sluggish and seldom iiies 

 unless disturbed. This I think is the reason that so few have been 

 captured ; on the other hand in bright and sunny weather Hera flies 

 so strongly and uses its wings so freely that it might be mistaken for 

 a wasted PapJiia, as indeed I did at Exminster and I should have not 

 know otherwise if it had not alighted, but it was off again before I 

 could place my net over it. I think the above named captures 

 extending over so many years will go to prove that C. Hera has 

 established itself in South Devon, and that very many more captures 

 would have been made had we during the past ten years had more 

 genial weather. 



Stonehouse, Plymouth, 14th September, 1892. 



NATURALISTS OF THE DAY. 



IX.— REV. OCTAVIUS PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE. 



M.A., F.R.S., ETC., ETC. 



The gentleman whose portrait appears to-day was born on 3rd 

 November, 1828, and is therefore 64 years of age. He commenced to 

 collect Lepidoptera when he was only eight years, and has continued, 

 with occasional interruptions at various periods, owing to professional 

 and other engagements, to work at that order ever since. He has, 

 however, in his own district, collected all orders of insects. In 1853 

 he began the study of the Arachnidse (Spiders, etc.), and has worked 

 at Exotic as well as British forms. His chief published works have 

 been in connection with this branch of his studies, and include 

 " Spiders of Palestine and Syria P.Z.S.. 1872 ; " Spiders of Egypt'" 

 P.Z.S., 1876 ; " Spiders of Dorset " in two volumes, illustrated, 1879- 

 81, this work being in fact a complete work on British spiders to date. 

 ''British Phalangida^ or Harvestmen 1889; " Yarkand Spiders'' 

 published by the Government of India, 18S5. He has also communi- 



