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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



Btaticis armeria asunder, to get the gallery of Colquohounana out I found a 

 short stout pupa, from which I have obtained an imperfectly developed moth 

 quite unknown to me, either as British or Continental. As I am too old to 

 work out this species I note it that some of our young friends may have that 

 pleasure. Its larvse should be looked for in March or April, or the perfect 

 insect in July. Scarlet is a parish or place beyond Castletown, and Scarlet 

 rocks are the wild igneous rocks beyond the marble or block limestone for- 

 mation, and from the head of Castletown Bay, about two miles from the 

 town on the coastway to Port St. Mary, near the limestone quarries. — C. S. 

 Gregson. 



Notes at Lundy Island. — Notes from strange places are often of interest 

 although the objects themselves be of ordinary occurrence. A few hour stay 

 one day last July, on the rocky cliffs of Lundy, a rugged mass of granite and 

 shale, washed by the waters of the Atlantic, revealed the following insects :— 

 urticce, cardui, afexis, and filipzndulce, in abundance, the latter were flying 

 about and settling on the long grass in the sunshine. A closer search on 

 the heather stems brought to light some empty cocoons of S. carpini, evident- 

 ly a common insect on the Island. Hovering over a patch of red valerian 

 was a Humming Bird Hawk-moth (if. stellalarum), and on a fence of granite 

 boulders, near the lighthouse, a Dagger [A. psi), and a Shark (O. umbratica) 

 added to the contents of the collecting box. The only other lepidoptera seen 

 were H. sylvanus, plusia, gamma, some Meadow Browns, Heaths (pamphilus), 

 and a quantity of Crambidse, Circling round the cliffs on the western shore, 

 were a pair of ravens ; while sea birds innumerable, guillemots, puffiins, 

 gannets, razorbills, and others of the gull tribe, added to the scene, and gave 

 some signs of life to the otherwise inhospitable shores of Lundy. — J. Hen- 

 derson, Heme Hill, London. 



Sphinx Convolvuli at Hartlepool. — A specimen of this insect has just 

 been brought to me by a labouring man, who took it some miles away. It 

 is rather rubbed by being carried so far in his hands, but was still alive when 

 it reached me. Its abdomen is perfectly empty. — John E. Kobson, 21st 

 August, 1885. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



T.R.B. — Only half your query was answered last month. The larva you enquire for is 

 yellowish white, with a brown head and brown plate on second segment. It feeds on 

 various roots, and lives underground more than one year. 



Preparation of Large-Bodied ^Insects. — T. R. writes that there is a method of 

 preparing insects with beautifully marked bodies, under the air pump, so as to preserve 

 their brilliant colours. Can any reader supply particulars. 



