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THE YOUNG 



NATURALIST. 



a very fine bird, and was very sorry to 

 lose it. 



PavidcB are extremely abundant all over 

 the woods, saw several very large flocks in 

 Holly Bush. 



Saw a few Field-Fares on the common, 

 they seems mostly to frequent the part 

 of the common where there are a number of 

 Hawthorn bushes, with an abundance of 

 berries on. Field-Fares are very fond of 

 Mountain Ash berries when they are ripe. 

 One year they came into our garden in great 

 numbers and completely broke off some of 

 the branches with their weight. 



Gorse [U . Europoeus) in flower. Heath 

 [C. Vulgaris, E. Cinerea, and E. Tetralix) in 

 flower. The common meadow grass (P. 

 annua) in flower everywhere. Holly berries 

 are very plentiful this year. 



CAPTURES IN THE NEIGH- 

 BOUEHOOD OF BOCKLETON, 



Situated five miles south of Tenbury, in the 

 county of Worcester, in 1881. 



IMAGINES. 

 V. C. Album, numerous. 

 V. Urticae, numerous, 

 V. lo, numerous. 

 P. Atalanta, 3. 

 P. Egeria, 5. 

 P. Megsera, 3. 

 E. Janira, numerous, 

 E. Tithonus, 8, 

 C. Pamphilus, very numerous. 

 L. Icarus, very numerous. 

 A. Cardamines, 8. 

 P. Napi, 5 (bred), 

 P. Rapae, 33 (bred). 

 P. Brassicse, 16 (bredj. 

 H. Sylvanus. numerous. 

 H. Tages, 2 (common). 

 H. Linea, 3. 



S. Convolvuli, i (at rest on drawing-room 

 window). 



H. Humuli, 4. 



Z, Lonicerae, i. 



V. Caja, 8 (bred).— (Miss) R. Prescott 

 Decie. 



(To be continued.) 



BRITISH MOTHS: 



By John E. Robson, 

 (Assisted by Contributors to the Y.N.) 



NOCTUINA. 



As with all other points of the kind, there 

 has been great difference of opinion as to 

 the position the Noctuina should occupy 

 among the various groups. Mr. Doubleday's 

 arrangement is perhaps that most used in 

 this country, but the order adopted in 

 Stainton's Manual is that of the more recent 

 catalogue of Dr. Staudinger. If the groups 

 be placed in parallel columns according to 

 these authors their differences will be easier 

 seen. As Doubleday divides them into 

 many more groups than the Manual a 

 number is prefixed to the first list, and the 

 corresponding figure in the second column 

 shows under which group they are included 

 in the first arrangement. 



Stainton. Doubleday. 



I 



— Sphingina. 



I- 



2. — Nocturni. 



2. 



— Bombycina. 



4 



— Geometrse. 



3- 



— Noctuina. 



2. 



— Drepanulae. 



4- 



— Geometrina. 



2. 



— Pseudo-Bombyces. 



5 



— Pyralidina. 



3- 



— Noctuse. 



6. 



— Tortricina. 



5- 



— Deltoides. 



7- 



— Tineina. 



4- 



— Aventiae. 



8. 



— Pterophorina. 



5- 



— Pyralides. 



9- 



— Alucitina. 



5- 



— Crambites. 







6. 



— Tortrices. 







7- 



— Tineas. 







8- 



9. — Pterophori. 



This, of course, does not show the single 

 genera or species that one author sometimes 

 places under a different group to the other. 

 Reference is made to these cases as they 

 occur. It will be observed that Mr. Double- 

 day placed the Geometry between two 

 portions of Mr. Stainton's Bombycina, and 

 followed the Pseudo-bombyces with the 



