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THE YOUNG 



NATURALIST. 



We have also the following species of 

 Longicorns waiting to be figured : — 

 Lamia textor 

 Leiopus nebulosus 



Rhagium inquisitor, indagator, and bifasciatum 

 Pogonocherus hispidus and fasciculatus . 

 Some of these, and also some of those 

 figured, we have in duplicate, and we shall 

 be glad to assist anyone who can send us 

 examples of species not enumerated above 

 for figuring. 



NOTICE OP BOOKS. 



Chapters on Popular Natural His- 

 tory : by Sir John Lubbock, Bart. [National 

 Society), i/6. — This is exactly the kind of 

 book that is wanted ; Natural History made 

 readable and interesting, but strictly 

 scientifically correct. In outside appear- 

 ance this little volume is artistically got up, 

 and the inside is embellished by excellent 

 woodcuts. It is a story book of the highest 

 class, and one well adapted as a present for 

 a young person of either sex, and also as a 

 reading book for the fifth and sixth stand- 

 ards in elementary schools. It treats upon 

 Ants; Bees and Wasps; Colours of 

 Animals ; Flowers and Insects ; Plants and 

 Insects ; and Fruits and Seeds. To all who 

 have grown up children we say, " go and 

 order the book at once." 



The Young Collectors' Handbook of 

 Flowering Plants: by James Britten, 

 F.L.S. [Swan, Sonnenschein, 6- Co.), id. — 

 We are evidently in an age of progress ; 

 progress of the right sort, when young men 

 shall be taught to leave the ale pot, the 

 race course, and the betting ring, and seek 

 more innocent and more substantial enjoy- 

 ment and information in the wide and 

 beautiful field of Nature. This world is an 

 Eden, but many never see the bright side, 

 know nothing of nine-tenths of the wonders 

 that have been called into being. This 



book and others of its class are just such as 

 will light the way to those places which to 

 these people seem so dark. What a happy 

 time— and it is sure to come — when the 

 lovers sit 



*' Beneath the milk-white thorn 

 That scents the evening gale." 



instead of taking out and reading a novel 

 as unreal as many that are now published, 

 shall take such a book as this, and read of, 

 and learn about, some of the beauties with 

 which they now sit unknowingly surrounded. 

 This little handbook is a marvel of cheap- 

 ness— 32 closely-printed pages and numerous 

 excellent woodcuts for one penny. Others 

 are published, and we are told that " nu- 

 merous others are in preparation." Some 

 of them might be slightly improved by hav- 

 ing the various orders, sub-orders, and 

 families upon which they treat printed in 

 various styles of type. 



The following refer to natural history : — 

 Beetles, by W. F. Kirby. 

 British Birds, by R. B. Sharp. 

 Butterflies and Moths, by W. F. Kirby. 

 Flowering Plants, by J. Britten. 

 Fossils, by B. B. Woodward. 

 Orders of Insects, by W. F. Kirby. 

 Shells, by B. B. Woodward. 



COLLECTING IN ARRAN. 



On July 14th and i6th, while staying at 

 Saltcoats, I visited the Island of Arran in 

 company with my friend, Mr. Andrew P. 

 Dron, and during our walk (on the 14th) 

 over the heather from Lamlash to Brodick 

 we were successful in taking a number of 

 insects, most of them being in good con- 

 dition. On the i6th, unfortunately it com- 

 menced to rain shortly after we landed at 

 Brodick, and we only took two moths. 

 The following were our captures : — 



Diurni. — Pieris rcupcBy Argynnis seleney 



