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YHE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



tures (1880) were made in a peculiarly wet marsh, thickly over- 

 grown with Iris pseudacorus, Senecio aquations, Myosotis paluslris, 

 &c." ("Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," Vol. XVII., p. 91), 

 while Mr. W. H. F. Blandford records P. isodactylus " close to 

 Saundersfoot (Pembrokeshire)" ("Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," 

 Vol. XXL, p. 207); Mr. C. G. Barrett also records his Norfolk speci- 

 mens (1871) from a marsh by the river side" ("Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine," Vol. VIII., p. 153), while Mr. Eustace R. Bankes 

 took his specimens " in a water meadow near Wareham " (" Entomo- 

 logist's Monthly Magazine," Vol. XXV., p. 455). 



This species, although excessively local, is generally abundant 

 wherever it occurs. Mr. Barrett has been especially fortunate in 

 finding numbers of the species, but since 1880 very few have been re- 

 corded, and it is, therefore, with pleasure, that one reads that Mr. 

 Eustace R. Bankes turned up the species during last August in the 

 neighbourhood of Wareham, and although, only three specimens were 

 captured there is no doubt, judging from the general abundance of the 

 species in its favourite localities, that more will be captured another 

 season. 



NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



By E. ANDERSON. 

 In the first place I must point out the great similarity which exists 

 between many of the English species and those occurring here. We 

 have our Ermines, Footmen, Old Ladies, Hawk moths, Carpets, 

 Emeralds, etc., all resembling the English species, and in some cases 

 even the actual species is to be found, one notable insect, C. pomonella, 

 has increased to such an extent in Tasmania, South Australia, and 

 Victoria, that the Governments of those colonies have been obliged to 

 introduce laws which compel owners of orchards to take measures to 

 eradicate this diminutive but destructive pest. Here it remains 

 throughout the winter in the larva state, spun up in a crevice of the 

 bark, changing to pupa in the spring, and the moth emerges almost 

 immediately after. The method chiefly adopted is to tie old sacks and 

 pieces of cloth round the trunks and lower branches of the affected 

 trees, when the larvae spin up in the folds, and the sack is then burnt. 

 As many as 400 have been taken from one tree, which will give an 



