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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



X. Aurago. — Ditto. Rare. Denny Wood. 

 X. Giltago. — Ditto. 



X. Ferrtjginea. — At light and at sugar. Gardens. Camden Town. 

 Rare. September. 



Dicycla Oo. — Abundant at sugar. July, 1871. Hollands Wood. 

 New Forest. 



Cosmia Diffinis. — The larva rare in the lanes about Highgate and 

 Hampstead, in June. 



C. Affinis. — The larva common in the same localities at the same time. 

 Also saw the imago at sugar in the New Forest, both at Minstead, and in 

 Park Ground Inclosure. August, 1871. 



Eremobia Ochroleuca. — On flowers of thistle. Waste ground, near 

 Hadleigh Castle, Essex. August. At rest by day. 



Hecatera Serena. — At rest on fences and trunks of trees near waste 

 places (about five feet from the ground.) May be also taken fluttering 

 among the sow thistle at dusk. It flies low and frequently settles back 

 downwards, and never with erect wings like a Plusia ; but like that insect 

 it is lively and does not settle for long. July and August. Kensal Green 

 (Middlesex.) Alexandra Park estate, near Wood Green ; and near Denny 

 Wood, New Forest. Not very common. G. Tate. 



Epunda Nigra. — Reported as being rare at sugar, in Denny Wood, 

 New Forest, in September. G. Tate. 



E. Viminalis. — Said to have been taken at sugar and as a larva in 

 Bishop's Wood, Hampstead, and near Shirley Heath, Surrey. 



Miselia Oxyacanthje. — September. Common at sugar. Woods and 

 lanes. The larva common in almost every hedgerow about North London 

 by night, in April and May. There is an extraordinary variety of this larva 

 (common in the New Forest, but not near London so far as I am aware) 

 which is evidently a case of protective mimicry or else a distinct species ; 

 being pale greenish-white, like the lichens which there clothe its food-plants, 

 blotched unevenly with a rather transparent dead leaf green tint. The usual 

 markings remain in outline. This larva is another example of the class that 

 take some time to make up their minds whether they intend to become pupse 

 or not, and is best reared in a cage with plenty of earth and left to itself after 

 burying, except for an occasional " damper/' Hampstead, Highgate, Wood 

 Green, &c, and in the New Forest. The variety Capucina used to occur in 

 Bishop's Wood, Hampstead. 



Agriopis Aprilina. — The larva rare at Lyndhurst in J une. 



