THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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Hundred of Wirral, Cheshire, up to the 20th 

 March, 1S80:— 



Poa annua Annual meadow grass 



Bellis perennis Daisy 



Stellaria media Chickweed 



iLuzula campestris .... Field wood rush 



iTussilago farfara . . . .Coltsfoot 

 Ranunculus ficaria . . Lesser celandine 



Lamiumincisum Cut-leaved dead nettle 



Lamium purpureum . .Red dead nettle 



ISenecio vulgaris Groundsel 



' Taraxacum officinale . . Dandelion 



)(Jlex europeus Gorse 



Potentillafragariastrum. .Barren strawberry 



|Mercurialis perennis. .Dog's mercury- 

 Viola odorata Sweet violet "rush 



Luzula pilosa Broad-leaved hairy wood 



Cardamine hirsuta. . . .Hairy lady's smock 

 Capsella Bursa pastoris. . Shepherd's purse 

 Ribes grossularia . . . .Wild gooseberry 



: Out of the above iS species, 14 were in tiower 

 on the 6th of March : the East winds of the 

 past fortnight have checked vegetation very 

 ;onsiderably. At the same time in 1878, and 

 from much the same neighbourhood, my list 

 jf flowers reached 33 species. 

 The trees are not included in either lists. 

 On the 13th and 20th March, I examined 

 Eastham Wood for Moths ; and on the latter 



occasion, sugared at night. The captures 

 :ollectively were not numerous, but were as 

 follows, viz : — 



Scopelosoma satellitia, 

 Taeniocampa cruda, 



Hybernia progemmaria, male and female, 

 Phigalia pilosaria, male and female, 

 Anisopteryx asscularia, male, 

 Tortricodes hyemana. — R. B., Liverpool. 



EXCHANGES. 



Duplicates. — Ova of L. Dispar aud bred 

 imagos. Desiderata. — Numerous. — T. W. 

 King, 3, The Terrace, Camberwell. 



COLLECTING AT 

 HARTLEPOOL. 



By John E. Robson. 



Just past the Cemetery, on the ballast facing 

 the sea, a large quantity of Coltsfoot grows, 

 mixed with thistles, &c, and here may be 

 found in June and July one of the more recent 

 additions to the British fauna, Halonota gran- 

 da.vuna. It was first recorded from South 

 Shields, in 1S72, by Mr. C. Eales, but on 

 looking over our odds and ends after, the 

 notice of the discovery, Mr. Gar.dner found 

 one that he had had for some years, Our 

 readers will perhaps take the hint, and not let 

 unnamed specimens remain in their store 

 boxes, if they wish to have the honor of 

 recording a new species. H. gnvnl^vana is a 

 very large Tortrix, some of the females 

 expanding quite an inch and a half. It is a 

 dull greenish drab, mottled with green. It 

 flies at dusk, and then settles on the upper 

 side of the Coltsfoot leaves, on which it may 

 be taken with a lantern almost all night. 

 Another late addition to the British fauna, 

 also occurs here. Among the Marram, may 

 be noticed patches of a larger leaved grass, 

 of a deeper or more glaucous green. This is 

 Lyme grass (Elymus arenarius) the food plant 

 of Nonagria elymi, which may be taken in June 

 flying rather wildly, or settled on the stems. 

 It was first taken at Hartlepool, in 1873, by 

 Dr. F. A. Lees, then resident here. So far as 

 I know the only other recorded stations are 

 South Shields, some thirty miles further 

 north, and Cleethorps and other places 

 along the Lincolnshire coast. The insect, 

 which is not very uncommon, may 

 readily be recognised on the wing by its 

 very white appearance. Only Leucania impnra 

 and pallens of the species we take, could be 

 mistaken for it, and they are not out till later. 



I very much question if there are many 

 places where so many species of Noctuae are 

 taken within so limited a collecting ground. 

 From the Cemetery wall to the end of the 



