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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



60 specimens of a beautiful colour (and could have got as many more had I 

 been inclined), and put them into a bottle with a piece of rag in it, and 

 brought them into the house, after being in a warm room for a little time 

 they began to revive, and to make a faint squeak, which by putting your ear 

 to the mouth of the bottle you could hear quite distinctly, I took several out 

 and placed them in my warm hand, and as they began to revive you could hear 

 them make the squeak, the squeak was similar to that made by C. rostratus, 

 but, of course, not so loud. Have any of the readers of the Young Naturalist 

 ever noticed this before ? if so, they might give us their experience.— John 

 Hill, Little Eaton, Derby. 



NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA. 



By B. LOCKYER. 

 (Continued, from page 23.) 



Dipterygia Pinastri. — At sugar and on palings in June and July. Bare 

 about Hampstead Heath, Bishop's Wood, Highgate and Denny Woods, New 

 Forest. 



Heliophobus Popularis. — At light only. Settles on palings under gas 

 lamps, where the herbage is rank. Eare about North London. August and 

 September. 



Cerigo Cytherea. — At sugar and light, in and near woods and heaths 

 about Lyndhurst. Not very common ; never took more than a dozen in one 

 season. July and August. 



Luperina Testacea. — On flowers of rumex. One only at the end of 

 August, 1874, at Camden Town, in a field of rank herbage. 



Mamestra Brassic^e. — On palings at sugar, light, and by mothing. Gar- 

 dens, fields, woods, and waste places, all about North London. June to 

 August. 



M. Persicari^e. — At sugar, light, and garden flowers, in fields, waste 

 places, and gardens (where the larva eats even gooseberry, currant, and 

 tobacco plant), about North London. Frequently most abundant in June 

 and July. 



A. Basilinea. — At light, end of May. Camden Town. One only. 



A. Ophiogramma. — At flowers of cultivated plants, by mothing round 

 ivy, and at light, in and near London. Three specimens only, the last on 

 28th July, 1878, at Highgate, Always on the wing about end of July. 



