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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



specimens just hatched. I caught ten in a 

 few minutes in one corner of our garden 

 where some rotten apples seemed rather an 

 attraction, and could have taken double that 

 number every day, sometimes there were five 

 or six waiting to be taken — a truly lovely 

 sight, The second is that V. cardui and P. 

 gamma appeared together in 1879 in similar 

 profusion and have neither been seen in 

 any quantity since, Cardui, especially, has 

 hardly appeared at all. Now what can be the 

 reason for two insects, apparently so dissimilar, 

 suddenly re-appearing in large numbers, 

 again in company, after a lapse of five years ? 

 The two seasons have certainly not been 

 alike, -79 was very wet and this as dry. 

 They are all freshly hatched and very fine 

 specimens. — Miss Hinchliffe, Worlington 

 House, Instow, North Devon, September 23rd. 



B. Quekcus Feeding on the Common 

 Garden Saxifrage (Saxifraga umbrosa). — 

 Early in June I took a solitary larva of B. 

 quercus feeding on ling ( Calluna vulgaris ) . 

 I took it home and placed it on my little 

 garden fence of hawthorn (Mespilus oxyacan- 

 tha). I saw nothing more of it for a few 

 days, when I found it on some saxifrage 

 growing alongside the fence. I replaced it 

 on the thorn, bnt soon again found it on the 

 saxifrage. This was repeated several times, 

 when I thought it must have found a fresh 

 food plant ; so I confined it in a tree-pot with 

 a good supply of saxifrage, which it ate very 

 freely. It has now spun a cocoon in the 

 bottom of the tree-pot. — John Firth, Man- 

 ningham, Bradford, September 3rd, 1884. 



Captures in Upper Wharfedale — On the 

 10th of August of the present year I had the 

 pleasure, in company with my friend Mr. 

 Soppitt, of making an acquaintance with E. 

 blandina in Grass Wood, Grassington, where 

 it has long been known to occur in profusion, 

 and on the occasion of our visit they were 

 flying leisurely about io open places in count- 

 less numbers, but were mostly in bad con- 



dition, owing, probably, to the very heavy 

 rains which, we were told, fell the day previ- 

 ous. Two or three examples of M. expolita 

 were noted, but not secured. This species 

 was added to the Yorkshire list from speci- 

 mens taken in Grass Wood on the 7th of 

 August, 1882, by my friend, Mr. E. P. P. 

 Butterfield, of Wilsden. Pteroj)7iorus seroti- 

 nus was very common in the same locality, 

 but, generally speaking, lepidopterous insects 

 were very scarce.— J. W. Carter, Bradford, 

 September, 1884. 



Captures at Gateshead. — I have had very 

 poor success with Diluta. A friend and my- 

 self have visited the locality several times 

 and have only taken eight between us. In 

 three visits the whole of the insects we took 

 did not amount to two dozen, the others 

 being one Glareosa, one Micacea, one Litura, 

 three Rujina, with four or five Pronuba, 

 The weather appeared to be extremely 

 favourable for sugaring, and yet the insects 

 did not come. It was extremely dishearten- 

 ing after walking so many miles. The larvse 

 of Atalanta have been extremely abundant 

 here this season, more so than I have ever 

 seen before. — Thos H. Hedworth, Dunston, 

 Gateshead. 



EXCHANGE. 



Duplicates — Dispar (males) and eggs, 

 Haworthii, Rujina. Desiderata. — Very 

 numerous. F. Ellis, 32, Swallow Street, 

 Huddersfield. 



Duplicates — Cardamines, Edusa, Paphia, 

 Phlceas, Alexis, Linea, Inipulinus, Dispar, 

 Antiqua, Lignata, Atomaria, Diluta, Impura, 

 Rurea, Herbida, Lucipara, Cubieularis, Or- 

 bona, TJnca, Typica. Desiderata — Poly- 

 chloros, Porcellus, JEsculi, Lunaria, Papil- 

 ionaria, Bajularia, Sagittata, Reclusa, 

 Dictoea, Camelma, Duplaris, Flavioornis, 

 Nigra, Exoleta, fyc., tfc. — W. F. Chambers, 

 22, Elmwood Street, Fishergate, York. 



