THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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mouth of the Tees, near Greatham, in July. In the article Redcar is given 

 as the locality, but that is a mistake, Redcar being on the Yorkshire coast, 

 considerably below the mouth of the Tees. In the same magazine for Decem- 

 ber (p. 102) is an account of its discovery in Norfolk in the preceding July. 

 Mr. Sang first took it in 1881. The larva is not known. Mr. Sang was of 

 opinion that it only sought the Artemisia for shelter, and that plant was 

 absent from the Norfolk locality. 



7. Hyponomeuta Malinellus, Zell. 



In the E.M.M. for October (p. 100), Mr. C. G. Barrett has a paper on 

 this species, and appears to prove satisfactorily that the apple-feeding species 

 found in this country is not, as has been hitherto supposed, a mere form of 

 Padellus, but that known elsewhere as Malinellus, The larvse differ, the 

 cocoons are differently spun, and though no reliable difference has yet been 

 detected in the imago, those Mr. Barrett reared were both larger and lighter 

 coloured than ordinary Padellus; they also emerged earlier. 



Of the above, C. Potentillce and Tinctoriella, L. Anderidce, and G. Tetrago- 

 netta are all new to science. 



Besides those here enumerated, records of other novelties whose history is 

 not yet fully worked out, have been made. A new Oporabia (Approximaria, 

 Gregson), was mentioned in the Young Naturalist for February (vol. vi., 

 p. 48). Of this species we have had the pleasure of examining one specimen 

 only, and so far as can be judged by the examination of a single specimen, 

 Approximaria will prove a good species. Mr. Gregson has also obtained a 

 pupa at Scarlet Rocks, Isle of Man, that produced an imperfectly developed 

 moth utterly unknown to him (See Y.N., vol. vi. p. 215). Mr. Sang has 

 found the mine of a Nepticula near Newcastle-on-Tyne, that is new to him, 

 on Polentilla tormentilla. If not M Tormentilla, a continental species, Mr. 

 Sang thinks this will be new to science. This year will probably show as he 

 has some in pupa. 



Cucullia Artemisia is "added to the British fauna" in the Entomologist 

 for November last, by Mr. W. Brooks, the gentleman who takes Calimorpha 

 Hera so freely. This species is enumerated among the reputed British 

 species in the first edition of Doubleday's synonymic list. It is not included 

 in the above list, pending some further information. Of C. Hera and its 

 reported occurrence we have something to say elsewhere. 



