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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



oscillator. Yelverton, 4th August; Bickleigh, 4th September. 

 obscurator. Bred from Homaosoma sinuella, 28th May. 

 anthracinus. Bovisand, 25th Juue ; Bickleigh, 9th July. 

 Phanomeris fragilis. 



Colastes decorator, Plymbridge, 30th June ; Bickleigh, 9th July. 

 hariolator. Bickleigh, 14th September. 



braconius. Bred from old oak leaves, 28th April ; Bickleigh, 9th July ; 

 Ivy bridge, 20 th August. 

 Oncophanes lanceolator. Bred from Tortrix viridana, 14th June. 

 Rhogas dimidiatus. Bred from Agrotis tritici, 4th July. 



g aster ator* Yelverton, 4th August. 



geniculator. Bred from young larva of Odonestis potatoria, 

 tristis. Bred from Satyrus ( = Epinephele) tithonus, 17th July. 

 circumscriptus. Very common, and on many larvse. Ebulea crocealis, 

 20th June ; Tceniocampa stabilis, 20th June ; Melanippe galiala, 

 21st September; Agrotis agathma, 9th April ; Noctua neglecta, 

 1st April. 



Sigalphus caudaius. Whitsand Bay, 13th September; Exeter, 14th Sept. 

 obscurellus. Bred fron Gymnetron noctis larva (a beetle), feeding on 

 the unripe seed of the toad flax, 9th September. 

 Chelonus inanitus. Common ; Plymbridge, Bickleigh, Oreston Quarry, &c. 

 carbonator. Oreston Quarry, 1st August. 

 parcicornis. Bickleigh, 9th July. 

 A scogaster canifrons. Bickleigh, 9th July. 



annularis. Bred from old furze -sticks containing larvse of (Ecophora 

 lambdella. 



rufipes. Bred from a Tortrix off birch, 17th July. 

 rufidens. Bred from Gracilaria syringella, 26th July. 

 quadridentatus. Bred from Eupithecia absiidkiata, 8th July. 

 Apanteles solitarius. Bred from Orgyia antiqua, Tceniocampa miniosa, 4th 



July ; and Hybemia defoliaria. 

 ruficrus. Bred from Leucania littoralis, 27th May ; Spilosoma menth- 



astri, 7th September. 

 congestus. Bred from Hadena pisi, 12th October. 

 Bignellii. Bred from Melitcea artemis faurinia), 26th July. 

 limbatus. Bred from Abraxas grossulariata, 14th July. 

 rubripes. Bred from Geometra papilionaria, 17 th July. 

 rubecula. Bred from half-grown larvae of Pieris rapce, 17th June; one 



only in a larva. 



