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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



has done since its commencement. One of its principal prints will be the 

 publication of a " List of the Lepidoptera of the Birmingham District/' with 

 notes and localities, &c, the result of practical research by its members. This 

 and all other matter collected by the Club is left in the hands of Mr. Bath. 

 The Birmingham Naturalists' Gazette, a monthly magazine and organ of 

 the Club, has preserved in print many interesting jottings connected with its 

 transactions. Copies of the Gazette will be forwarded to anyone on receipt 

 of a stamped addressed wrapper to the late Secretary, John Percivall, 

 F.Sc.S, 45, St. Stephen's Avenue, London, W. 



ENNOMOS ATJTUMNARIA AT LEEDS. 



In September, 1884, Mr. James Terry, a local collector of Macro-lepidop- 

 tera, exhibited at a meeting of the Bradford Naturalists Society a specimen of 

 Geometer, which he had recently taken flying about in the Leeds market, and 

 considering that he had captured it with his hand it was in fair condition. I 

 named it Autumnaria at the time, but as I was not quite certain brought it 

 home and compared it with one of Mr. TugwelFs bred specimens, very kindly 

 given me by Mr. Porritt, and was glad to find my surmise as to the species 

 correct. I think there can be no doubt that the specimen had been imported 

 in the pupa state amongst fruit, as plum, apple, pear, &c, are given as food 

 plants, and I do not attach much value to the record, but give it merely as 

 an instance of the transportation of a species from its home to a foreign 

 country.— J. W. Carter, Bradford, Feb. 1st, 1886. 



Entomological Note — a comparison. — To-day, February 7th, although 

 the frost was very severe, we have had a good long walk in search of the 

 early moths, but our efforts were only rewarded by the capture of a solitary 

 male specimen of Hybernia leucophearia ; from an examination of hundreds 

 of trees we came to the conclusion that P. Pilosaria had not yet emerged, 

 if indeed there are any to emerge, as in the locality visited to-day — Shipley 

 Glen — only one specimen, and that a female, was taken during last season. 



It will be interesting, however, to note this year its appearance in relation 

 to its normal numbers. In 1884 — a mild abnormal spring — P. pilosaria 

 was taken as early as January 16th, H. leucophearia and Progemmaria on 

 the 20th, and by the 3rd of Feb., all the three species were quite common in 

 one or another part of this district. 



In 1885 Leucophearia was first noticed on Feb. 1st, Pilosaria and Pro- 

 gemmaria on the 1st of March. — J. W. Carteu, Valley-street, Bradford. 



