TFIE YOUNG 



NATURALIST. 



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saria ^rnales), Carpitd 2 females, Dispar 3 

 males, Bidentata 2, CcBsiata 4, Ferruginea. 4, 

 Spadicea, Maoilenta 2, Tenebrosa 2, Daklii 

 I pair, Snspecta i, Olanca i, I'wr^j^i i, 7>4- 

 stabilis 4, O-nigrum 4, Camolina 2, Fuligi- 

 nom I, Vclledci var. car tins i, Impura 4, 

 Porphyrea i. Variola i, Pusaria i, Nymph- 

 aalis 4, Aglaia i, Paphia i, var. VaZezina 2 

 pair, Edusa 2, Adonis 2, 7'. r<^/n 2, Lucina 2; 

 Coleoptera: Ilaipalus ritjicornls, JVchr'ui 

 IrevicoUls, Pterostichus mad'uhis, Aphodius 

 prodronivs and a^t'r. Desiderata — British 

 Lepidoptera, Coleoptera ; or Land and 

 Fresh Water Shells.— J. W. Carter, 14, 

 Valley Street, Valley Road, Bradford. 



Duplicates.— Ova of ii. Dlandina and C. 

 cytherca. — John E. Robsrn, 15, Northgate, 

 Hartlepool. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 



LARV..E OF Ocell.vtus. — Miss Hinchliffe, 

 in sending us some larva; of the Eyed Hawk, 

 makes the following interesting observations: 



"They have changed a good deal in the 

 first three moults. When hatched they 

 were bright pea green, with the stripes 

 hardly traceable, and bright red tails. At 

 the first moult they turned a thicker, more 

 whitish green ; the stripes were more dis- 

 tinct, and the tails a pinkish mauve. At 

 the second moult the ground colour and 

 stripes were much the same as now (colour 

 very pale bluish green, stripes nearly as in 

 the adult larva), and tne tails turned nearly 

 white, with a short pinkish stripe above, 

 extending from the insertion to about half 

 the length of the tail. At the third moult 

 the only change was that the pinkish stripe 

 vanished. So far they have moulted regu- 

 larly once a week, on Saturday or Sunday." 



Captures at Salford Priors and Cleve 

 Prior, July 2Qth. i8S-\— Sphxrium rivicola, 

 2; Pisidium fontinale, I ; Unio tumidus var. 

 radiata, 2 ; Anodonta cygnxa va. zellensis, 

 I ; Neritina fluviatilis, 6 ; Brythinia tenta- 

 culata, 14 ; Planorbis vortex, 3 ; P. compla- 



natus, ig ; Limnaia peregra. a few ; Limax 

 agrcstes, 8 ; Succinea putris, 14 ; Zonites 

 nitidulus, 3 ; Z. nitidus, 3 ; Helix aspersa, 

 10; H. nemorali?;, 3; H. nemoralis va. 

 hortensis, 7; H. rufescens, 10; H. con- 

 cinna, 39 ; H. concinna var. albida, 7 ; H. 

 hispida, 3 ; H. virgata, 44 ; H. caperata, 5 ; 

 H. rotundata, 3 ; H. rupestris, 27 ; H. pul- 

 chella, 38 ; Bulimus obscurus, i ; Pupa 

 marginata, 38 ; P. marginata var. albina, i ; 

 Clausilia rugosa, 10; Cochlicopa lubrica, i. 

 I also saw plenty of " dead " specimens of 

 the following :-Dreissena polymorpha, Palu- 

 dina vivipara. Helix lapicida ; but as my 

 time was rather limited I could not hunt 

 for the living specimens. — P. T. Deakin, 

 Birmingham. 



Mistletoe. — A short time ago I saw 

 Mistletoe ( Viseuni album), growing upon 

 the black poplar {Popidus nigra), very 

 plentifully. Can any of your readers inform 

 me whether it is common for mistletoe to 

 grow on that tree ? — A. Davis, High Street, 

 Great Marlow, Bucks. 



BEETLE HUNTING IN THE 

 TIMBER YARDS. 



By JoH.N E. RoBSO.N. 

 Large quantities of foreign-grown, small 

 fir, and other timber is imported here for 

 mining purposes with the bark on, and 

 various species of coleoptera are imported 

 with it. Some are species known to be 

 British ; others are doubtfully so ; while 

 otliers, though found here and elsewhere 

 alive, are not known to have been obtained 

 in this country except under similar circum- 

 stances. Many of these beetles are, no 

 doubt, in the larva state when they reach 

 our shores, and I once had the opj ort unity 

 of observing the larva of Mcnohamu sutor for 

 some time, at least, I have every reason to 

 believe it to have produced that species. I 

 found it under a bit of loose bark on a piece 

 of limber just unloaded for piling. I took 



