THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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unusual sight in the Forest, as owing to the scarcity of buckthorn, the species 

 is very rarely met with in the locality. 



The Easter holidays, however, hardly proved so productive as many Ento- 

 mologists hoped for, still many of the early species were recorded, amongst 

 which I may mention B. parthenias, which was on the wing in tolerable con- 

 abundance at West Wickham, from March 25th to April 10th; but B. 

 notha, at sugar, has not proved at all common, and the Taniocampce are 

 all rather scarce, in fact most visits to the sallows have been rather unpro- 

 ductive. 



The larvae of C. villica seem to be more plentiful this season than they 

 were last, and C. caja bids fair to be unusually abundant ; C. dominula, on 

 on the contrary, appears to be scarce and backward, and what with landslips, 

 the raids of collectors, and the burning of the herbage along the cliffs, it is to 

 feared that the species stands a fair chance of being exterminated from the 

 celebrated locality near Deal. 



B. hirtaria, as usual, made its appearance in the London parks and 

 squares, about the 3rd April. It is a very sluggish species, and the females 

 seem to remain in one situation for days together. The night-feeding Noctuse 

 larvae seem rather abundant. A. nebulosa is turning up commonly again, it 

 has been rather scarce for two or three years ; and T hear that C. exoleta has 

 been discovered at Higherate, which, I believe, is a new locality for it. The 

 warm rains we have just had here have given a great impetus to both vege- 

 tation and insect life, and no doubt by next month there will be much to 

 record. 



London, April 20th , 1885. 



HAGGERSTON ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Huckett (President) took the chair at the meeting of 2nd April, and 

 there was a fair attendance of members. Mr. Russell exhibited a long series 

 of L. multistrigaria, the specimens being remarkable for their unusually 

 large size, they were captured March 21st, at Hampstead, and upon that 

 date were in great profusion. Mr. Sheldon gave his experience at the 

 sallows, and also stated that he found L. multistrigaria commonly in one 

 spot in Epping Forest, and noted that L. salicella was out. 



At the next meeting, April 9th, the President took the chair. Mr. Harper 

 exhibited two S. illustraria, bred the same day from larvae captured last 

 autumn in Epping Forest. Mr. Clark showed a specimen of A. prodomaria, 

 bred that day from a larva taken at Seven Oaks, and Mr. Anderson brought 



