THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



G. de Castillon, Meg i n — Your subscription 

 is paid up to No. 92. 



J.H.S. York. — Send us your lists of Dupli- 

 cates and Desiderata for the Exchange j 

 Club. We shall try and begin the Maga- 

 zine Club with the new year. 



D. R., Rastrick. — Either your bookseller or 

 his London agent will not take the trouble 

 to get a penny paper. Messrs. Kempster j 

 have every number in stock, and they as- 

 sure us they have never once refused any 

 number asked for. Try again. When you 

 once succeed you will have no more 

 trouble. 



C, C, Liscard, Cornwall ; and others. — We 

 are surprised you do not get the plates ; 



. they are supplied regularly to our pub- 

 lishers, and to all our agents, and if you do 

 not get them through your bookseller I 

 somebody is to blame for not putting the 

 plate in the number that should contain it. 

 If you want colored plates you had better j 

 send your subscription direct to us as these 1 

 cannot be supplied through the trade at 

 present. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Sirs. — After receiving the monthly part of 

 your magazine for November, I decided to . 

 take it in weekly, but my newsagent found it j 

 rather difficult to get it, but he succeeded in 

 getting me Nos. 54, and 55, and hopes to sup- 

 ply me weekly in the future. I was very much 

 pleased to see your paper on " Exchange," 

 I am sure it will be the means of getting 

 species not to be got otherwise except at 

 great expense, and again I think it will save 

 much postage, and I for one shall be very 

 much obliged to you for taking on your- 

 selves the % dutv of receivers, and I hope all 

 duplicates sent will be well set and in good 

 condition. I enclose list of a few dupli- 

 cates that I have, also some of my wants ; 

 of course if you have not got one thing you 

 may have another. — I remain, yours, J. T. 

 Rodgers, Chadderton Road, Nov. 28. 



LOCAL LISTS. 



The Geometrina of Plymouth and vicinity. 



(Continued from P. 29.) 



By G . C . B 1 g n e l l , M . E . S . 



Biston hirtcivia. — Rare. April and May. Cann 

 wood. 



Amph\dasis prodromarta. — Common, March 

 and April. Bickleigh Cann wood. 



A. bituLxria. — Common. May and June, 

 Bickleigh, Cann wood, Pennycomequick. 



Hemerophila abruptaria. — Rare. May and 

 August. Stoke. 



Chora Ltehenaria. — Rare. July. Cann 

 Barn, Cann wood. 



Bcarmia repandata, — Common. June and July. 

 Hedgerows, I have many times taken the 

 beautiful banded variety (conversaria ) from 

 larva: found feeding on Erica cinerea 

 (Heath). 



B. rhomboidaria. — Common. June and July. 

 Lanes and hedgerows. 



B. roborciria. Rare. June and July. Once 



in Cann wood. 

 Tcphrosia consonaria. — Common. May. Cann 



wood. Generally found at rest in fir trees. 

 S. crepuscularui. — Common. April. Bickleigh, 



Cann wood, Shaugh. 

 T, extersavia. — Not common. June. Cann 



quarry and wood, Ivy bridge, Maristow. 

 T. punctulata. — Rare. May. Bickleigh vale, 



Boringdon wood. 



ENEMIES TO FIELD AND 

 GARDEN CROPC IV. 



GRASS LAND. 



By S. L. Mosley. 



The enemy to grass land, so far as insects 

 are concerned, has, at anyrate during the 

 past few years, been the common "leather 

 jackets" as the larva of the crane fly or 

 daddy long-legs is generally called by 



