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developed into caterpillars. Caterpillars feed on green leaves 

 for three or four weeks, and then turn into the butterfly, or 

 moth, which lives for 24 hours.' It was almost inconceivable 

 that any boy should show such confusion and inaccuracy of 

 ideas. He could only say on behalf of his brother members 

 of the Nottinghamshire Society that they had enjoyed their day 

 immensely, and it had enlarged their ideas and sympathies and 

 extended their knowledge of the local fauna, if not the flora. 

 Several of the members had made rather important captures, 

 and he hoped that before many years were over they would be 

 able to publish exhaustive accounts in ' The Naturalist ' of the 

 fauna and flora of the county, which would fill up a great 

 gap in their knowledge of the plants and animals of the midland 

 counties. He himself had the flora in hand, and had collected 

 an enormous amount of material, while Mr. Thornley and others 

 had an equally extensive mass of material relating- to the fauna, 

 so that he hoped in time Nottinghamshire would be as well 

 described as any other county in the kingdom. 



The Rev. A. Thornley, F.L.S., President of the Nottingham- • 

 shire Society, confirmed what Professor Carr had said as to the 

 pleasure which the meeting had given them. They were working 

 very hard at the fauna, and some of them would probably have 

 noticed, through the kindness of many of his friends, he had 

 been able to publish a valuable list of the Saw Flies of the two 

 counties. That list contained four or five entirely new species; 

 some new to science, and a number new to Great Britain. That 

 was not a bad beginning, but one man could not do all this 

 work. He hoped the members would do their best to supply 

 material to work upon. He was glad to say he had at home 

 now six or eight parcels which contained some hundreds of 

 beetles, grasshoppers, and all sorts of pretty things that crept 

 and crawled. It was his delight when he got ten minutes to 

 spare to set to work upon them. He had been fortunate in 

 receiving the hearty and welcome assistance of our great 

 experts, and he trusted that all who could assist would do so. 

 Their object was to work up thoroughly the natural history, 

 botany, geology, fauna, and flora of their own county. 

 Mr. Thornley went on to describe some of the flies and 

 beetles which had been captured during the afternoon, and 

 Mr. Lewington followed with a list of the specimens he had 

 also observed. 



The following Entomological Reports are for Langford Moor, 

 Nottinghamshire, only. 



Naturalist, 



