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EXCHANGE. 



W. Harcourt Bath, Manor Villa, Sut- 

 ton Coldfield, has a great stock of Moths 

 and Butterflies for exchange, including 

 many rare specimens. Please write quickly. 



Duplicates. — Bradycellus distinctus, Dichi- 

 rotricJms obsoktus, Philonthus alhipes, P. nigri- 

 iiihis, Stilicus ovbiculatus, Haltica eviceti, Plec- 

 troscelis aridella, Thyamis lurida, &c. Desi- 

 derata. — Numerous lepidoptera and cole- 

 optera. — ^S. HuiME, 4, Overton Terrace, 

 Ashburnham Road, Clive Vale, Hastings. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 



The Ruby Tiger {A rctia fuliginosa). -The 

 imagines of the first brood emerge in Octo- 

 ber and the beginning of September. They 

 are fertile. I have had quantites of eggs 

 from them. The young are hatched in 

 about a fortnight's time, and feed a little 

 after which they hybernate, and emerge the 

 following May. It seems very strange, 

 some that were hatched in June, quite four 

 months before others, should not in one 

 sense be any older. There is no proper 

 distinction between the first brood and the 

 second ; some of the second brood go to- 

 wards forming the first. — VV. Harcourt 

 Bath. 



Sugar at Birmingham. — The following 

 is the result of sugar this year. i8th April, 

 sugared in a wood a Selly Oak, but not an 

 insect of any kind turned up. i2ch July, 

 sugared in same place with Mr. Deakin, and 

 the result one Noctua augur. 22nd July, 



we sugared again at Selly Wick, but nothing 

 turned up. This was so discouraging that 

 we have not tried since. It would be very 

 interesting if correspondents from other 

 parts would send you the results of sugar 

 this year. I might add that one of our best 

 Entomologists here has only taken one 

 moth at sugar this year, although he has 

 tried three times at Sutton. — Geo, F. 

 Wheeldon, Birmingham. 



The Elder growing on a Yew. — I 

 noticed two young Elder trees {Sambucus 

 nigra), one about two feet and the other 

 about nine inches high, growing on the 

 branches of a very old yew tree {Taxus 

 baccata), in Clieve Churchyard, near Eves- 

 ham, on 2nd September. They were grow- 

 ing out of niches in the bark, one on one 

 side of the tree, and the other on the other 

 side. I have heard of whitethorn, growing 

 on Oak trees, but never of the elder growing 

 parasitical. Have any of your correspon- 

 dents noticed this before ?~G. F. Wheeldon, 

 Birmingham. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS 

 THE FAUNA OP PLYMOUTH. 



{By permission of the Author.) 

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



[Eepriiited from the Transactions of the Pi™outh 

 Instituti .u and Devon and Cornwall Natural History 

 Society, 1881-82.] 



HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONID.^:. 



Arranged according to the Rev. T. A. Marshall's Oata- 

 logiie, published by the Entomological Society of 

 London, 1882. 



Part II.* 



Ichneumon cyayiiventris. Captured at Bick- 



* Part I. will be found in Yoi. IE. of the Y.N. 



leigh, 20th August 

 leuGccerus. Captured at Bickleigh, 2nd 



September 

 lineatoi\ Bred in May 

 molitorius. Bickleigh, 2nd September 

 vaguiaiorlus. Plymbridge, 5th August 

 minutorins. Bickleigh, 5th August 

 latrator. Bickleigh, 2nd September 



