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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



hills, in the spring of 1880, but did not know 

 what it was until I saw the specimen taken 

 by Dr. Ellis, as reported in your last issue. 

 — R. Wilding, Liverpool. 



LEPIDOTERA. 



D0UBLE-BR00DEDNE5S OF ArCTIA FuLI- 



GiNOSA. — With reference to the double- 

 broodedness of Arctia fuliginosa (Y.N., vol. 

 iv., p. 11), I believe it to be so regularly in 

 the Fens. I was very much interested in 

 the species during a fortnight's collecting at 

 Wicken Fen at the end of July and begin- 

 ning of August, 1878. In the first place, I 

 had always taken the species here in May 

 or June ; in the next place, I had always 

 considered it solely a day-flier ; and in the 

 third place, I had only taken the small 

 northern form. But at Wicken I found 

 what was undoubtedly a second brood (I 

 have since taken it on the same ground in 

 June), full on the wing at the end of July 

 and beginning of August ; that the species 

 came freely to light on the Fen at midnight ; 

 and that the specimens were exceedingly 

 large. These facts, although quite new to 

 me, I found all the local fen collectors con- 

 sidered ordinary and regular occurrences 

 (see "Naturalist" N.S., vol. iv., p. 131). — 

 Geo. T. Porritt, Huddersfield, December 

 nth, 1882. 



Captures at Lewisham during 1882. — 

 In common with many other parts of the 

 kingdom, sugar with us proved almost a 

 blank at the commencement of the season, 

 but ended very much better than it begun. 

 The following list is taken down in the order 

 the insects occur in my diary : — 



At Light. — A- hadiata, C. spinula, L. 

 adustata, O. Ixbatr'ix^ M. occelleta, C. rus- 

 sata var. centumnotata, N. festiva^ T 

 a/mataria, L. comma, S. tvpuliformiSj 0. 

 samiucata, T derasa, A. putris, Y. elutata, 

 C.fulvata, B perla. One specimen of M. 

 alUcillata was taken at rest on a fence. 



At Sugar. — D. jpinastri, G. trilinea, E. 

 lucipara, L. eonigera, A. gemina, T, jan- 

 tliinaC. trapezina, H. micacea, C. cubicu- 

 laris, N. C'7iigrum, M. oxyacanthce, O. 

 spadicea, O. lota, S. satellitia, V. poly- 

 chloros 



At Ivy. — 0. vaccinii, X. ferruginea, S. 

 satellitia, M. oxyacanthce, C. spadicea. 



While staying at Dovercourt I obtained 

 AT Light one specimen each of E. apiciaria 

 and E. tiliaria ; at Sugar, 2 M. aljecta, 

 I A. pyramidea, 1 C. cytherea, 3 A. puta, 

 and several L. testacea and H. nictitans. 

 — T. F. Marriott, George Lane, Lewis- 

 ham. 



(Is our correspondent right in saying 

 that V. polycTiloros occurred at sugar ? — 

 Eds. Y.N.) 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



All communications to be sent to J. E. Bobson, 15 

 Northgate, Hartlepool; or to S. L. Mosley Beau- 

 mont Park, Huddersfield. 



G. C. Bignell. — Thanks for the new bug 

 (P. undatus) sent for figuring. We shall 

 give a plate of Hemiptera at an early 

 date, and should be glad to figure any 

 other species which has recently been 

 added to our fauna. 



F. Kerry. Harwich. — Thanks for pair of 

 beautiful shore larks and kingfisher sent 

 for figuring. 



EXCHANGE. 



I have a herbarium of British plants 

 numbering nearly 1200 specimens. They 

 are all well dried, uniformly mounted, and 

 labelled with locality, date, and collector's 

 name. It contains most of the rarest British 

 plants. I would be glad to exchange it for 

 British lepidoptera.— John E. Robson, 15, 

 Northgate, Hartlepool. 



