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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



[April, 



nomenclator was De Villers, as will be found on referring to Stephens 

 Syst. Cat. Brit. Ins. II. p. 231., No. 7628 ; or to Stephens Brit. Entom. 

 Haust. IV. (1834). It is not, however, very clear how this substitution 

 of one authors name for another can affect the conclusion arrived at 

 by Dr. Mason concerning the identity of Heterodactylus (c.f. E.M.M. 

 XXV. p. 162). Unless it be proved that Haworth's Heterodactylus is 

 not identical with the insect so named by De Villers, we may be wrong 

 in saying that the " plume moth," we have known since 1870 as Teucrii 

 was not known in 1789, as well as in 1829 as Heterodactylus. 

 12, Abbey Gardens, St. John's Wood, London, N.W. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



Although I cannot refer Mr. Briggs to any published record of 

 Distans at Folkestone, Mr. Sydney Webb has recently sent round a 

 considerable number of specimens of O. distans taken at Dover, for 

 distribution among the members of the " Young Naturalist Exchange 

 Club." I have taken several at Deal (on the sand hills) during the 

 month of July in 1883 and 1888. There is no doubt that the Deal, 

 Dover, Brandon, and Tuddenham specimens all belong to the same 

 species, and the lepidopterist who can make two species out of these 

 must be very shrewd. 



So far as I can see Lcetus and Hieracii should be knocked out of 

 our lists at once, or rather they should never have been introduced. 

 I trust Mr. Briggs will be able to obtain Mickleham Pilosella, and 

 work out some reliable information regarding it. The so-called speci- 

 mens of PilosellcB that I have seen here have all been referable to 

 Distans, Teucrii, or Parvidactylus, generally the former, but I have not 

 seen Mickleham specimens. 

 Westcombe Park, London, S.E. 



Notes on some Micro-Lepidoptera 

 bred during 1888. 



By GEO. ELISHA. 



The uncertainty of the weather during the summer months of 

 last season made collecting with the net a comparative failure, indeed, 

 I found it risky business to go anywhere approaching a long journey, 

 as wet generally came on before I reached my destination and many 

 times kept steadily on, so that I was compelled to return without 



