THE YOUNG NATURALIST. Ill 



only stragglers remaining before the cheap-trip collectors go to the New 

 Forest for a week or two. That somebody knows all about it and nurses it 

 1 have little doubt, but if the practical collectors around London will go down 

 to the New Forest as soon as they get this notice, and beat for it, search tree 

 (oak) trunks, and moth for it at dusk, I feel sure it will be no longer scarce 

 in our cabinets. Most specimens taken will be females, possibly such as 

 come out too late to find males, but it is quite possible some will have found 

 late males and will deposit fertile eggs, if so, perhaps they will record the fact 

 in the Young Naturalist. 



Venosata var- Fumosae and var. Bandanse. 



I am now breeding this magnificent variety freely. I say " magnificent 

 variety/' because, though when I bred it before, I did not breed so many or 

 such distinctly marked specimens. Now 1 am breeding series of it every day, 

 some like my var. Fumosce — dark, dun, uni-coloured specimens — whilst many 

 others are so distinctly striated and banded, that few people would suspect 

 them of being only varieties of a light reticulate (type) species. I can only 

 describe them as size | of an inch ; colour dark rich mouse-coloured dun, 

 having two white strise edged with black, and a dark line in the centre of 

 each white stria, inside these stria? the colour is much darker and forms a 

 wide irregular brown dun coloured band, very like some of the genus Emme- 

 lesia have. As this variety is so pronounced, the name fumosce hardly does 

 it justice, I therefore propose to call it V. bandance. 



OBITUARY. 



The Rev. JOHN HELLINS. 



We very much regret to have to announce the death of the Eev. J. Hellins, 

 which took place at his residence, The Close, Exeter, on the 9th May. On 

 Saturday he was taken ill with an affection of the throat, which, unfortunately, 

 terminated fatally on the Monday morning following. He was so highly 

 respected and esteemed in the City of Exeter, that the sad event was made 

 known during the day by the tolling of the Cathedral bell. 



The very able and painstaking manner in which he carried out his investi- 

 gations as an entomologist will be long remembered by his numerous circle 

 of friends, in proof of which we have only to look on the two last volumes of 

 the Hay Society's publications, he having taken upon himself to complete the 

 histories, as far as possible, that were omitted by his co-worker the late Mr. 

 Buckler. 



