THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



Euplesia Ltjcipara. — Rare at sugar. Woods and lanes near Bishop's 

 Wood, Highgate Woods and New Forest. July. 



Aplecta Herblda. — Common at Sugar. Pond-head and Park Ground 

 Inclosures, New Forest. 1874 and 1875. June and beginning of July. 



(To be continued.) 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



" The Larvae of the British Butterfles and Moths. By (the late) 

 Wm. BUCKLER, edited by H. T. STAINTON, F.R.S. 



Vol. II.— The Spinges or Hawk-moths, and part of the Bombyces." 



Being the Ray Society Volume for 1886. 



The circumstances leading to the publication by the Ray Society of the 

 figures, &c, of the larvae of our British Lepidoptera, by the late Wm. Buck- 

 ler, was fully detailed in our remarks in the first volume (See Y.N. Vol. VII. 

 p. 44.) They may therefore be very briefly alluded to here. Mr. Buckler for 

 many years had been carefully figuring the larvae of British Macro-Lepi- 

 doptera, and on his sudden and unexpected death, the whole of his drawings 

 and note books were purchased by the Ray Society. It was found that of 

 many species, carefully figured long ago, no description had been published, 

 nor could any be discovered in the note books. The Rev. John Hellens, 

 who had been closely allied with Mr. Buckler in his work, came to the rescue, 

 and aided by numerous correspondents, made a most successful effort to fill 

 the blanks, succeeding so well that in the last volume only four species of 

 which figures had been taken, were left undescribed. 



The second volume was intended to include the larvae of the Hawk-moths 

 only, but the fulfilment has been better than the promise, and it actually 

 includes figures of the larvae of twenty-seven species of Bombyces, making it 

 possible to complete the Bombyces in the third volume. The completeness 

 of the series is really astonishing, and only those who had seen Mr. Buckler's 

 lists of desiderata, could have expected to find so many species figured. The 

 preface says that figures of four species are wanting, these being Naclia 

 ancilla, Chcerocampa nerii, Trochilium vespiforme and Allantiforme. \A e 

 certainly do not include Naclia ancilla among British species, and Charo- 

 campa nerii is only a rare visitor, and is actually placed among the reputed 

 species in our recent catalogue. Figures (from Continental larvae) are given 

 of several species, whose claims for retention on the British lists are 



