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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



Odonestis Potatoria. — July. Indifferently a hedgerow and woodside 

 species ; always found but is rather local. The larva is very difficult to rear, 

 and like Bomhyx rubi, scarcely ever battles successfully with the perils of 

 hybernation. It is still quite small at the end of April, and is best taken at 

 the beginning of June. Southgate, Highgate, &c. (Middlesex), Yarmouth. 



Saturnia Carpini. — -Taken by assembling on Shirley Heath, Surrey, and 

 in the New Forest. April and May. Found the larvoe common on the 

 Yorkshire moors, August, 1866. 



Uropteryx Sambucata. — July and August. Found everywhere in gar- 

 dens, woods, and hedgerows. The male is a lofty and erratic flier. Both 

 the larva and perfect insect may be taken by day, hiding underneath ivy 

 leaves ; the latter attached by its claspers to the leaf-stalk, its body held slant- 

 ing downwards in a loose curve. It should not be kept in a cage covered 

 with leno, as it will inevitably chew up the leno to form its peculiar coccoon, 

 always hung by four or five threads from its food plant. The pupa is large, 

 very lively, and pinkish ochreous, dotted and striated with pale smoke colour. 

 The ova (long ovals of a lemon yellow) are deposited in small numbers, 

 usually in rows, on the upper side of the leaves of the food plant. They 

 turn bright orange chrome before hatching. Hardly any shrub in the garden 

 comes amiss to the larvae, even laburnum is attacked by it. "When young, 

 like most Geometrse, it is very fond of indulging in long races after nothing, 

 and frequently depends by threads from the twigs of the food plant during 

 the day-time. It only feeds at night or in the early morning. May. 



Epione Advenaria. — Rare. Flying about bramble, in Park Ground in- 

 closure, New Forest. May. 



Venilia Maculata. — By beating undergrowth by day. Common at West 

 Wickham, not so common near Lyndhurst. May. 



Metrocampa Margaritata. — By mothing and on gas lamps, at the end 

 of June and beginning of July. Woods and their vicinity (Middlesex and 

 New Forest). Flies rather high, and is of course a conspicuous object on 

 the wing. 



(To be continued.) 



COLLECTING AT LOCH FYNE, ARGYLLSHIRE, 



IN JULY, 1886. 



By A. ADIE DALGLISH. 



The entomologist who has time to spend a week or two at Tarbert Loch 



