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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



OUR LONDON LETTER. 



The abrupt change in the weather which took place in the early part of 

 this month has given a check to insect life, and consequently the hopes 

 expressed in our last will hardly be borne out ; still the month of May could 

 hardly fail to give plenty of work to the entomologist, and a good deal of 

 work has been done. The night feeding spring larvse have proved fully as 

 abundant as predicted in my last, B. repandata being fairly common again 

 after a comparative scarcity of late years, and T. fimbria and T, jantliina 

 appear to have been taken in fair numbers. Of perfect insects, I hear of 

 L. lobulata, X. lithoriza, A, derivata, C. suffumata, A. pictaria, &c, and 

 among the diurnal species S. alveolus, T. tages, E. mi, and E. glyphica are all 

 in about the usual numbers, whilst already London collectors are busy 

 searching the Genista anglica for P. cytisaria and beating for the usual spring 

 larvse. A few hot days will bring out a host of species, and the approaching 

 holidays should give Entomologists everywhere a golden harvest. 

 London, May 20th. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Echium pla.ntagineum in North Wales. — Is I was looking through 

 " Sowerby's English Botany " the other day, I was surprised to recognise 

 a plant I found two years ago, from a sandy piece of waste ground at Beo- 

 mouth, North Wales, namely the Purple Yiper Bugloss {Echium plantag- 

 ineum.) Sowerby gives Jersey as the only locality, as do other writers I 

 have consulted. The "London Catalogue," too, gives the Channel Islands 

 only. There was a moderate sized bush of it, but not knowing it 1 only 

 took a small piece. — Sidney Weiss, Edgbaston, Birmingham. 



THE "YOUNG NATURALIST" LIST OF BRITISH 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



By JOHN E. ROBSON. 



A question having arisen as to this list being an infringement of a copy- 

 right claimed by Mr. T. P. Newman, its further publication is suspended, 

 pending a settlement of the matter. 



