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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



A. Tragopogonis. — At sugar. Tufnell Park, Middlesex, and New Forest. 

 Not rare. August. 



Mania Typica. — At sugar, light, and hovering over thistle, &c. in the 

 evening. June and July. All about North London, especially waste places, 

 gardens, and rank pastures, near Camden Town. Commoner as a larva than 

 as a perfect insect ; may be easily taken in some numbers in dead leaves of 

 Pyrus japonica and other creepers, about March. 



M. Maura. — Scarce at sugar. New Forest. July and August. 



Catocala Nupta. — At sugar and at rest on fences about North London, 

 especially on Hampstead Heath; rare in the Highgate and Hampstead 

 Woods and at Darenth Wood, Kent. August and September. 



C. Promissa. — At sugar. New Forest. End of July to middle of August. 



C. Sponsa. — At sugar. New Forest. August and September. 



Etjcltdia Mi. — Not very common. Flying by day. Kensal Green, 

 Middlesex. The Germans, Addington, Surrey, Park Hill, and Stubby Copse 

 Inclosures, New Forest. May. 



E. GLYPHiCA.^-Not common on the wing by day. Park Hill and Stubby 

 Copse Inclosures, New Forest. May. 



Phytometea .ZEnea. — Kicked up by day. Not rare. Woods, &c. in the 

 New Forest. May. 



ADDITIONS. 



Aspilates Strigillaria. — Common as a larva in April, on the heaths at 

 Shirley and in the New Forest. 



Cleora Lichenaria. — At rest on trunks of oak, near Minstead, New 

 Forest. The larva in the New Forest and at Shirley, Surrey, and on the 

 Bishop's fence in the early morning. August. 



Etjpithecia Nanata. — Common. Shirley Heath and in the New Forest. 

 Disturbed by day. April. 



Agrotis Saucia. — At sugar and ivy bloom. Rare. Near Lyndhurst 

 and at Hampton Court, Surrey. September. (B. Lockyer.) 



Ephyra Pendularia. — Once on the Bishop's Fence, Shirley. May. 

 E. Omicrosaria. — Once near West Wickham, also in the New Forest. 

 May. 



Tephrosia Crep use ul aria ane Biundttlaria. — At rest on palings and 

 trees. Shirley, West Wickham, and Lyndhurst. Not rare. March to May, 



