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THE YOUNG 



NATURALIST. 



ture there. Yet, — and we call the 

 afftention of our correspondents to this 

 —if such a record were made in the 

 ordinary way, " Captures at Hudders- 

 field. Found Z. Icarus rather com- 

 mon in the meadows and pastures," 

 every one who did not know the gen- 

 eral absence of the species from that 

 district would think the editor had 

 been very much in need of matter to 

 fill up his pages to admit such a para- 

 graph. Again, were we to print " The 

 members of the Hartlepools' Field 

 Club had a ramble on Saturday, and 

 found iS. Megcera flying freely in all 

 the grassy lanes," ordinary readers 

 would again credit us with being short 

 of material, while the fact is that S, 

 Megcera^ which a quarter of a century 

 ago was one of the commonest butter- 

 flies in the neighbourhood of Hartle- 

 pool, and in Durham generally, dis- 

 appeared after one season and has 

 never been seen since. Such a record 

 then would really be an important one, 

 uninteresting as it would seem to those 

 who did not know of the non-occur- 

 rence of the species for so long a 

 period. 



We give these illustrations that our 

 readers may see there may sometimes 

 be considerable interest attached to 

 the occurrence of the commonest spe- 

 species j but if the special interest such 

 as obtains in these cases be not named, 

 then such records are hardly worth 

 making, and stand a good chance of 



being cut out. We are as desirous of 

 knowing all about the Common Blue 

 as we are about the Camberwell Beauty 

 — perhaps rather more, for the one is 

 an undoubted Briton, and the claims 

 of the other to be more than an immi- 

 grant are rather questionable. We 

 will, therefore, as gladly welcome notes 

 about common things as about rarities, 

 only they should be notes of interest 

 or importance. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



All communications to be sent to J. E. Egbson, 15, 

 Northgate, Hartlepool; or to S. L. Mosley Beau- 

 mont Park, Huddersfield. 



Subscriptions for Vol. III. are now past 

 due, and we will be glad to have remit- 

 tance from those who have not yet sent 

 them. Weekly numbers or monthly parts, 

 post free, f /- per annum, or i/6 per quar- 

 ter, in advance. Coloured plates, 2d. each 

 extra. These can only be had direct from 

 the conductors as above, but any one 

 procuring them through the booksellers 

 can have them coloured on application. 



S.B.W, — Your notes were printed without 

 your name as you did not append it, but 

 such papers ought always to have the 

 writer's name as an authority for what is 

 said. We shall be glad of the further 

 communication you promise. 



EXCHANGE. 



Will give six copies No. 2, of "Birming- 

 ham Naturalists' Gazette," for Nos. i to 4 

 (Vol. 2), of "Frizinghall Naturalist." Will 

 give to anyone who will send box and return 

 postage, I Thecla Yiibi, 2 Lyccena alexis, and 

 6 Lobophora viretata (unset), and a few ovag of 

 the golden swift (Hepialus hectus).— Apply to 

 W. Harcourt Bath, Sutton Coldfield. 



