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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



of S. Megara from this neighbourhood ? In 

 1877, before I began to collect, I could have 

 caught plenty on a common at Whitely, but 

 from that time to the present I have seen 

 none, yet I have visited the place scores of 

 times in the hopes of finding some. The 

 gorse has been cut, and burnt very much, 

 can this be the cause of it ?— H. Thompson, 

 Coventry. 



LOCAL LISTS. 



The Geometrina of Plymouth and vicinity. 

 (Continued from p. 53.) 



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



A. Candidate. — Common. May and June, j 

 Bickleigh, Shaugh, Cann Wood. 



A. Sylvata.— -Not rare. June and July. Bick- 

 leigh Vale, Plymbridge. 



Acidalia scutulata— Common. June and July. 

 Lanes and hedgerows. 



A. bisetata. — Not common. June and July. 

 Plymbridge. 



A. trigemimta. — Common. June and August. 

 Cann Wood, Ivy bridge. 



A. riisticata— Rare. July. Eastern Cliff. 

 Rame Head. 



A. interjectaria. — Common. June. Cann 

 Wood, Laira embankment. There has 

 been some little confusion between osseata 

 interjectaria. A. osseata is described in 

 " Stain. Man." ii, 46, as having the costa 

 brownish. Mr. H. Doubleday, in a com. 

 munication to " The Entomologist," Vol. 

 10, 30, says. — " I have recently received 

 from Dr. Staudinger several specimens of 

 the true Acidalia osseata. I had not seen a 

 Continental specimen before. The typical 

 examples have a bright red costa, and I 

 have never seen any British specimens like 

 them ; but I possess five or six which 

 appear to be identical with a pale variety, 

 also sent to me by Dr. Staudinger. There 

 is, however, no doubt that the majority of 



specimens in our cabinets under the name 

 of osseata are really interjectaria. Haworth's 

 description of the former species applies to 

 the latter." The only difference between 

 osseata and interjectaria is the color of the 

 costa: the former is "bright red," the 

 latter "brownish." Stainton's description 

 of osseata applies to interjectaria. 



A. virgularia. — Common. June, July, and 

 August. Lanes and hedgerows. 



A. incanaia, — Common. June, July, and 

 August. Bovisand, Cawsand, Kingsand. 



ENTOMOLOGY FOR 

 BEGINNERS. 



By C. S. Gregson. 



DECEMBER. 



" All's well, that ends well." Our year is 

 now ending, is all well with us up to now ? 

 If what has been read in the Young Naturalist 

 during the year has been persistently acted 

 upon, then all is pretty surely well, and we 

 may fairly rest a little from our out-door 

 labours, and get our captures in order, 

 j because little can be done this month that 

 S could not be done at the end of November, 

 j or may not be done during the first open 

 j weather in January next. Still, if you have 

 ! any time, pupa digging, and especially beetle 

 1 hunting is now at its best. The edges of 

 \ woods and plantations, or odd trees, and 

 j especially dead or dying trees, under loose 

 bark or moss should be closely investigated, 

 ! along brook or river sides, under rejectamenta, 

 i many species of Carab'uhe may be found in 

 1 most unlikely situations; thus mountain 

 I species brought down by the flood may he 

 found in the low swamp land, but perhaps 

 the best places are where the water has laid 

 j upon a large expanse of low land for some 

 j time, around the edges of the water the 

 j " wrack " is left as the water recedes, and 

 j under and near this rejectamenta, in dry 

 j tufts of grass, &c, every beetle that escaped 



