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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



meaniDg strength, appropriate to — 



"The builder oak." 

 Sole king of forests all," 



So deeply docs the oak drive its 

 roots into the grounrl that it is the 

 rarest tree to be overturned by the 

 tempest. In a furious hurricane which 

 levelled many magnificent trees in 

 Auckland Park, not a single oak was 

 uprooted ; but one sturdy, well-grown 

 tree four feet in circumference had its 

 head twisted completely round, thus 

 shivering the trunk from top to bottom, 

 leaving it full of yawning crevices like 

 a loose bundle of laths or faggots. 

 Everyone knows that Smeaton took 

 the design of the Eddystone lighthouse 

 from the bole of an oak-tree, and that 

 form of structure has resisted the fury 

 of the waves longer than the rock on 

 which it was built. 



INSECTS FEEDING ON 

 OAK. 



Some of our readers may remember an 

 article, "An Entomological Herbarium," 

 which appeared in No. iig. The following 

 list of insects feeding on oak was compiled 

 for such an "Entomological Herbarium," 

 and is given here as a supplement to the 

 preceeding article, and as being of con- 

 siderable interest, if only from its length. 

 It is confined to the two orders Lepi- 

 doptera and Hymenoptera, but does not 

 profess to be exhaustive even of these 

 orders. Those hybernating are marked 

 "h"; those appearing at the beginning o 

 the month are marked "b"; and those 

 appearing at the end "e." 



LEPIDOPTERA. 

 MARCH. 



H. barbalis A. glaucinella, in bark 



L. penkleriana 



MAY. 



S. cynipiformis in A. pyramidea, e 

 bark P. roborella 



N. cristulalis 



H. quercana 



O. gonostigma, h 



T. dumetana 



B. quercus, h 



ribeana 



0. sambucata 



pyrastrana 



M. margaritata 



L. sorbiana 



C. elinguaria 



sulviana 



H. pennaria 



xylosteana, e 



N. hispidaria 



P. Lecheana 



B. roboraria 



E. bimaculana 



P. bajularia 



P. profundana 



H. thymiaria 



corticana C?) 



C. brumata 



Bouchardana 



O. dilutata 



S. latifasciana (?) 



T. miniosa 



C. lutipennella, in 



munda, e 



case 



cruda 



C. palliatella, h, in 



D. 00 (?) 



case 



C. trapezina 



C. currucipennella. 



X. petrificata 



in case 





JUNE. 



T. quercus 



progemmaria 



N. strigula 



defoliaria 



centonalis (?) 



N. dodonea 



C. miniata 



cassinea 



L. chrysorrhea 



chaonia 



auriflua 



P. hamula 



dispar 



C. diluta 



P. populi 



A. rufina 



illustraria ; again litura 



in September C. vaccinii. 



E. tiliaria 



S. satellitia (cannibal) 



erosaria 



H. croceago, b 



angularia 



E. fulvago 



P. pilosaria 



H. protea 



E. porata ; again in A. aprilina 



September B. parthenias 



punctaria ,, 



C. sponsa, h 



H. leucophearia 



promissa 



aurantiaria 



R. consociella 



