THE YOUNG 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



E. E. G. — We should be obliged if you would 

 write communications for publication on one 

 side of the paper only. 



J. A., Chichest r. — A colored plate has been 

 forwarded ; it was our mistake. 



E. F. N., Coventry.— Thanks for eggs of Tilios 

 and Ocellatus. We return your box with a 

 few pupae of N. Brunnca, which wo hope will 

 be of service. We also send you a list of the 

 species we want for figuring. 



EXCHANGES. 



L. argiolus for other butterflies or moths. — 

 Geo. F. Wheejdon, 83, Colmore Row, Bir- 

 mingham. 



NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



I and Mr. P. T. Deakin caught at Sutton, 

 this morning (J .me 13th), about 20 C. pam- 

 philus, 1 T. rubi, 6 0. phheas, a male and 

 female of P. arg: olus, and about 16 F. atomaria. 

 — Geo. Wheeli on, Birmingham. 



0. Goxostig}. a. — On page 255 of the Y. 1ST. 

 this insect is gk m amongst those that are to 

 be found at rest during the day, or on the wing 

 af dusk. This species flies only in the day- 

 time. — E. F. rTr:HOLLs, Coventry. 



Captures in Kent. — I see by the num- 

 ber of the Yo,'ng Naturalist for June 12, 

 that you are complaining that collectors 

 do not send notices of their captures. 

 I therefore send a list of lepidoptera that I 

 have been taking here, on the hills between 

 Maidstone and Sittingbourne There are hardly 

 any butterflies, with the exception of the com- 

 mon Whites and Orange tips. I caught a very 

 battered Brimstone yesterday, and saw the first 

 small Tortoiseshell this morning, busily en- 

 gaged in laying eggs on a clump of nettles. 

 The geometers re very plentiful : 31. mon- 

 tanaia is a posi ive nuisance, and C. bilineata 

 is just beginning to show itself. The banks of 

 the hills swarm with F. atomaria and A 

 plagiata. In the hedges G. taininata, Coremia 

 propucpiata, lodes lactearia, and A. candiclata 

 are very common. The fields are full of E. 



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albulata, and the plantations of Thsra obelis- 

 caria. I have taken a few specimens of Teph- 

 rosia crepuscular ia and a very fine female 

 Sdcnia luaaria. Z. filipendulce is just making 

 its appearance and in the evening Hepialus 

 hamuli. I have taken very few of the Noctuas 

 at present, and those chiefly day-flying. On 

 the hill-sides Euclidia Mi and Phytomctra cenea 

 are abundant, also a few specimens of E. 

 gli/phica. I also took one Heliodes arbuti on 

 the 11th inst. I sugared one night last week, 

 but on going round I only found three centi- 

 pedes, a large garden-spider and a caddis-fly. 

 — E. E. Green, Sittingbourne, Kent. 



Abundance of the Larvae of Depres 

 saria nervosa. — In a certain lane in this 

 neighbourhood the Hemlock Onanth (Onanths 

 crocata ) occurs in profusion, growing in the 

 ditches. At the present time most of the 

 plants on one side of the lane are entirely 

 denuded of their leaves by the pretty little 

 larvae of Depressaria nervosa. The greater 

 proportion of these lame are nearly full grown, 

 but there are a few smaller individuals among 

 them, and these will probably die of starvation, 

 for hardly a leaf remains for them to feed upon. 

 It is strange that these larva should confine 

 themselves to the plants on one side of the 

 lane only, for, as far as one can see, there is no 

 difference in the quality of their pabulum, but 

 aspect most likely has something to do with it, 

 as the plants these larvse are upon face the 

 south. The larvse when young usually spin the 

 terminal tender leaves, and umbels together, 

 and live separately in a little silken house, 

 but in this case they are so numerous that they 

 appear to have eaten each other out of house 

 and home, and are to be seen living, feeding, 

 and wandering about perfectly exposed. They 

 are very lively in their habits, and when 

 annoyed wriggle rapidly backwards, and drop 

 from their position, although they have a 

 wonderful knack of catching a lower leaf or 

 stem as they fall, so that they rarely alight 

 amongst the herbage at the foot of their food 

 plant. — Gervase F. Mathew. Instow, N. 

 Devon. 



