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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



was getting dusk. Hybernia rupicapraria was flitting about the hedges, but 

 in less plenty than I saw it at Cambridge two days later, although even there 

 it was in less abundance than I have seen it in some previous years. I think 

 I have about recorded all my entomological doings on the day I have been 

 speaking of. I saw no butterflies, but Gonepteryx rhamni was observed at 

 Cambridge not many days later. 



By way of appendix, I give below a list of the 



LARV.E OF TlNEINA FEEDING IN JANUARY, 



in addition to such as are mentioned above. 



Tinea rusticella. — Whitish, with pale brown heads ; on cloth. 



T. pellionella, do., with red-brown head, and brown plate on second seg- 

 ment; on cloth, &c. 



Adela Degeerella. — On Wood Anemone. 



Gelechia affinella. — Pinkish in colour, with black head ; on moss on old 

 walls. 



G. tricolorella. — Pale greenish yellow ; in leaves and shoots of stitchwort 

 (Stellaria holostea.) 



G. Ufractella.— -White, with pale brown head ; in seeds of Common Flea- 

 bane and Conyza squarrosa. 



Parasia metynerietta. — Yellowish white with brown head; in seeds of 

 Centaurea nigra, 



P. carlinella. — Dull whitish, with black head ; below the seeds of Carline 

 thistles. 



Dasycera sulphurella. — Greyish white, with reddish brown head; in 

 decayed wood. 



(Ecophora pseudo-spretella. — Yellowish white, with reddish brown head ; 

 on dried peas. 



Enchosis fenestrelia. — Common in houses on waste substances. 

 Butalis grandipennella. — Dark olive green ; in a web on furze. 

 Asychna ceratella. — In galls on knot grass [Polygonum aviculare.) 

 ElacJiista gangabella. — In leaves of rough cock's-foot grass [Bactylus 

 glomerata.) 



THE OTTER. 



(Lutra vulgaris.) 

 By W. H. WARNER. 



Foremost among the river haunting creatures is the fish-destroying Otter. 

 This is one of the few wild animals of any considerable size left in Britain, 



