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THE YOUNG 



NATURALIST. 



We think we may therefore safely con- 

 clude that the authorities of the Post Office 

 are well aware that so far as sending larvae, 

 &c., by post, the regulation that " live 

 animals" are prohibited from transmission 

 is not complied with now, nor is there any 

 intention on their part to enforce its con- 

 ditions in the new Parcels Post, though the 

 prohibition remains nominally in force. 



ILLUSTRATIONS OP 

 VARIETIES OP 

 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



Part II, 



Huddersfield : S. L. Mosley, Beaumont Park. 



Some of the readers of the Y.N. will per- 

 haps remember that Mr. Mosley some 

 time ago commenced a series of " Illustra- 

 tions of Varieties of British Lepidoptera," 

 which were both drawn and painted by 

 hand, and consequently published at a 

 price which at once placed them out of the 

 reach of the majority of British entomolo- 

 gists. Mr. Mosley, finding himself unable 

 to keep up with the increasing demand for 

 this work, owing to the necessarily slow 

 rate of production, decided to issue two 

 cheaper editions of it with the outlines 

 lithographed, one at 5s. per part (superior 

 edition) and the other at 2S. 6d. (cheap 

 edition). 



We have just received Part 2 of both 

 editions, and in our opinion the 5s. edition 

 is quite equal in merit to the original work : 

 the only difference is that the latter plates 

 were done entirely by hand, while these 

 have the outlines lithographed. The 2s. 6d. 

 edition is very little inferior, and for all 

 practical purposes is quite as useful ; it only 

 lacks that beauty of finish which is so ob- 

 vious in the 5s. one. 



Each part contains five plates illustrating 

 the genera Gonepteryx, Colias, and Melitaa, 

 the page opposite giving the locality, date 



of capture, &c., of the insects figured. It is 

 intended, according to the "prospectus," to 

 issue one part " at least every three months." 

 Such a work gives one the opportunity of 

 examining and studying the many abnormal 

 forms of Lepidoptera — some of them unique 

 — which are scattered about in various 

 collections, while to the evolutionist of 

 future generations such a work will be of 

 real value in showing imperishable figures 

 of local forms, &c., which have existed, when 

 the specimens represented have crumbled 

 into dust.— J.W.C. 



OUR FIRST 

 ANNUAL GATHERING. 



Whit Monday as far as the weather was 

 concerned, was everything that could be 

 desired by the naturalist, and a fair number 

 responded to the suggestion to spend the 

 day on the Wallasey Sandhills. There 

 were persons from Derby, Bradford, Corn- 

 forth, Droylesden, Huddersfield, &c., and a 

 number of the members of the Lancashire 

 and Cheshire Entomolgical Society, the 

 party including several ladies. 



Many of the party were strangers to the 

 locality, and for the first time took such 

 species as Zoriaria^ Lineolata, and Fascelinay 

 Mr. Johnson of Liverpool rendered valuable 

 assistance by shewmg how to find certain 

 things which were a general desiderata 

 with those present. Dr. Ellis successfully 

 conducted a raid upon the beetles, and 

 many good species fell into the bottles of 

 the many coleopterists present. 



Among the exhibits those brought by Mr. 

 Carter of Bradford, and Mr. John Hill of 

 Derby, deserve special mention. Mr. 

 Carter's included very variable series of 

 Progemmaria, Befoliaria^ Le^icophearia, and 

 Aurantiaria, and a still more striking series 

 of Pilosaria, including one almost black. 

 Mr. Hill's included a still more extraordinary 

 series Pilosaria, one being dark with a light 



