THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



and Dingy and Large Skippers [L. Tages 

 and H. Sylvanus). — A. Davis, High-street, 

 Gt. Marlow, Bucks. 



Wild Fruit. — Can any of your corres- 

 pondents inform me whether white wild 

 raspberries are common, as I found several 

 bushes of them in an old chalk pit. In other 

 parts of the same pit there were the red ones 

 [Bub .s Idceus). — Also, last year I found 

 growing by a stream, a bush of wild white 

 currants. Are they at all common, as I 

 have heard of wild red and black [Ribes 

 Rubruni and Sio rum) but not white. — Ibid. 



Mushrooms. — In No. 87, your correspond- 

 ent R. Prescott Decie, states that "mush- 

 rooms have been coming up in their fields 

 for the last fortnight." It may interest her 

 to know that I gathered a very large mush- 

 room early in June. — Ibid. 



While walking from Worcester to Norton 

 Camp at 11.45, on the night of Friday, the 

 15th inst., I was surprised to hear what 

 sounded to me like the noise produced by 

 the common house cricket, in a place very 

 nearly half a mile from any house. After a 

 few minutes I discovered that the sound 

 came from a tall elm-tree by the path, and 

 apparently from about 15 or 20 feet up it, 

 I never heard any sound like it before out 

 of doors, and I should be very glad if you 

 or any of the readers of the " Young Natu- 

 ralist " could tell me what is likely to have 

 produced it. I may mention that the night 

 was very still and warm. — F. E. Prescott 

 Decie, Brockleton Court, Tenbury. 



Notodonta Chaonia.— It may interest 

 some of your readers to know that I took 

 on Maple a fortnight ago a larva of N. Cha- 



onia which has since turned into a chrysalis. 



— Ibid. 



Botanical Diary (continued from No. 

 85 and 86, pp. 244). The following are all 

 dates of flowering. White Water Lily (Nym- 

 _ j/kcea aiba), June 15th; Dewberry (Rubus 

 ccesiua), 15th; Devii's-bit-Scabious (Scabiosa 

 mccisa), i8tb , Field Knautia (E/uiutiaarven- 



su), 1 8th; Common Avens (Geum icrbanum), 

 iSth; Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare), 

 iSth ; Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) , iSthi 

 Privet (Zigustrwn vulgare), 21st; Lesser 

 Convolvulus (Convolvulus arvensis), 21st ; 

 Larger Convolvulus (Convolvulus sepium), 

 24th ; Common Golden-rod (Solid-ago virg- 

 aurea), 24th; Yellow Water-lily (Nuphar 

 lutea), 26th; White Bedstraw (Galium mol- 

 lugo), 30th ; Bramble (Rubus frutwosus,) 30th; 

 Ladies' Bedstraw (Galium vcrum), July 5th; 

 Meadow Sweet (Sjtircea uhnaria), 5th ; Wild 

 Marjoram (Orgarium vulgare), 15th; Wild 

 Thyme (Calamintha clinopodium), 17th. — 

 A. Davis, Gt. Marlow, Bucks. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS 

 THE FAUNA OF PLYMOUTH. 



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



(Reprinted by permission of the author from the 

 Transitions of the P.yrnouth Institution and Deyon 

 and Cornwall Natural History Society, 1881.) 



HYMENOPTERA, ICHNEUMONIDJE. 



Arranged according to the B v. T. A. Marshall's Cata- 

 logue, published by tne Entomological Society of 

 London, 1872. 



Part I. 



Ichneumon. — 

 bilineatus, bred from Bryophila glandifera. 

 trili eatus, bred from Abraxas grossnia- 

 riuta 



multian/wZatus, bred from ftoctua brun/ua. 



confusorius. 



gracilentus. 



leucostigmus 



(To be continued.} 



BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



By J. E. Robson ; with figures from life by 

 S. L. Mosley. 

 (Assisted by Contributors to the Y.N.) 



Genus II. Polyommatus, Lat. 



" Polyommatus, Lat., Polyom' matus, many- 

 eyed." A.L. 



A large and very difficult genus, embrac- 

 ing between three and four hundred species, 

 distributed all over the world, but perhaps 



