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THE YOUiVG 



NATURALIST. 



went early one morning after, to the same 

 field and found another hedgehog feeding 

 upon the carcase ; it was nearly all finished 

 up now, there was nothing much left but 

 bones. When I went back home I put them 

 into a box, with two or three bricks on, to 

 keep the lid down. The next morning I 

 found that they had both gone, aud the lid 

 and bricks were in exactly the same position 

 as I had left them the night previously. 

 They have a great power of lifting weights 

 with their snout. I have not seen or heard 

 anything of them since. 



Cranes.— I believe cranes are rather 

 plentiful in Shropshire, I have seen several 

 there recently. One that was shot in Aug- 

 gust was stuffed with sage and onions and 

 cooked, and very much resembled the tame 

 goose in taste. 



Chimney Martins have stopped very 

 late this year. I saw several at Clent, in 

 Worcestershire, the last week in October. 



House Sparrow building in November, 

 owing to the mildness of the weather — Bir- 

 mingham. 



Silver Y. Moth. — I caught a Silver Y 

 Moth on the trunk of an oak tree, in Sutton 

 Park, Warwickshire, 6th November. 



Wasps have been very plentiful this year 

 at Sutton. A swarm formed a nest inside a 

 pump, and were a great nuisance, being so 

 close to the house. The woodwork of the 

 pump was decaying and there were several 

 holes in it. — -W. H. Bath, Birmingham and 

 Sutton Coldfield. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS 

 THE FAUNA OF PLYMOUTH. 



By Mr. G. C. Bignell, M.E.S. 



CEcprintecl by permission of the author from the 

 Traiisiiciions wl tilt; Pjymjuth Iiihtitution and Devon 

 and Corn'.vall Natural History Society, 1881.) 



HYMENOPTERA, ICHNEUMONID^. 

 Arranged according to the K.v. T. A, Marshall's Cata- 



logue, published by the Entomological Society of 

 London, 1872. 



Part I. 



(Continued from page 



Thematopygos. — 



vellicans. Taken at Widewell farm, Tavi- 

 Road, 4th August, i88o. 



EXOCHUS. — 



aljjinus. Bred from a Tortrix, feeding on 

 honeysuckle, in May (possibly T. xylos' 

 teana.) 

 Bassus. — 

 einctus. 

 exsultcuns. 

 Rictus. 



nigritarsus. Bred from Bonthyx quercus. 



pulchellus. 



eognatns. 



festivus. 

 Metopius. — 



micratorius, 

 Rhyssa. — 



persuasoria. 

 Ephialtes. — 



emperator. Taken at Bickleigh. 



tuherculatns. Taken at Plymbridge. 

 Perithons. — 



varius. Bred from an old bramble stem! 



PiMPLA. — 



examinator. Bred from Turtruv viridaua, 

 14th July, 1880; also from a pupa 

 found in an old burdock stem (29th 

 April, 1879;. 



tnrioiiella. 



Jiavonutata. Bred from Tortrix vividana. 

 scanica. do. do. 



stercovatur. 

 trevicornis. 

 Glypta. — 

 ceratites. 

 lioes'itator. 

 scalar is. 



LiSSONATA. — 



coJigata. This is a new British species, 

 which I bred from Anticle i hadiata. 

 Caligata remains in the pupa state 



