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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



At last I found a larva quite unknown to me. Again and again I pulled a 

 cabbage to pieces, most of the larvae were gone, but eventually I secured about 

 a dozen. But what are they ? I have gone over every genus, and cannot 

 satisfy myself. One group only comes back to me, the Py rales. Can it 

 be Botys urticalis ? What, a nettle feeder living on cabbage ! Impossible ! 

 It is quite thirty years since I had urticalis larvae, but these recall them to 

 my mind, only they have a row of distinct black dots on the sub-dorsal 

 region, which I do not remember on urticalis. I have been trying to think 

 they were Laphygma exigua which should be about their size, bat I always 

 come back to urticalis. Yet it will be a strange thing if they turn out this 

 species only. — C. S. Gregson, Liverpool. 



Some Argyllshire Netjroptera. — The following list of neuroptera 

 taken by the Kev, Dr. Walker and myself, at Tayvallich, during our short 

 visit to that place in July, may prove interesting to those of your readers who 

 study that particular branch, The list of species is, no doubt, a small one, 

 but in explanation I may state that the weather during our stay was very 

 unfavourable for collecting specimens of this order, and indeed most of our 

 captures were taken at rest on the rushes bordering the peat mosses. Not 

 having paid much attention to this order I am not aware that any of the 

 species taken are of any rarity, but coming from so unfrequented a district 

 they may prove interesting as giving an idea of the species to be found there. 



Leptethrum quadrinaculatum, three specimens. 



Lestes sponsa, fairly common. 



Agrion cyathigerum (?), common. 



Agrion pulchellum. 



Aeschna juncea, common. 



Pyrrhosoma minium, common. 



Sympetrum Scoticum, rare. 

 We took in all some 200 specimens, but had the weather been more favour- 

 able I do not doubt but we should have added considerably to our captures. 

 The various peat mosses in the neighbourhood, from which the inhabitants ob- 

 tain fuel afford splendid collecting places for Neuroptera. Last summer we 

 took two specimens of Aesckna cyanea, but this season we did not see a single 

 specimen. 1 should be glad to know if any of the above named species are 

 anyway rare, or of northern distribution. — John Mackay, Glasgow. 



The Red-throated Diver at Hartlepool. — My son has just had a 

 specimen of this bird given him. It is a young bird, but has the red 

 patch on the throat very distinctly developed. We seldom see it here.-^- 

 John E. Robson, Hartlepool. 



