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bride in Corsock, a place in the centre of the Stewartry, 548 feet 

 above sea-level. An atrocity like that must go to the heart of every 

 British entomologist. It cannot be adequately characterised in 

 mere words. 



Although my lamented friend, the late William Lennon, once 

 took some larvae of this species at Castledykes, in the suburbs of 

 Dumfries, about the year 1862 (one, at least, of which he reared, 

 and I believe it is included in the series of this species in his cabinet, 

 now in the Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh), this present 

 occurrence is, I expect, only the next for Scotland. For myself, I 

 have no doubt that this batch of larvae found at Corsock was the 

 produce of an immigrant female. Neither this species nor A. atropos 

 is so constituted as to be able to maintain a permanent colony in 

 Scotland, although, if they were sufficiently acclimatised to do it 

 anywhere within our limits, it would be in this mild south-west. 



So much for the larvae of S. convolvitli. I have also to record 

 a couple of battered images, sent me on the igth and 22nd August 

 respectively. These were found sleeping on the garden wall at 

 Arbigland, a warm sunny spot on the seashore, close to Southerness 

 Point. Here the Scented White Tobacco (Nicotiana affinis) flowers 

 in great profusion in the borders, coming up, in many instances, year 

 after year, from self-sown seed a sufficient indication of the warmth 

 of air and soil. This plant is said to be the prime attraction for the 

 Convolvulus Moth, when any of these are in flight. No other native 

 insect that I am aware of has sufficient length of tongue to reach the 

 nectar at the bottom of its long tubular blossoms. ROBERT SERVICE, 

 Maxwelltown. 



Sphinx eonvolvuli, Z., in East Lothian, etc. This grand moth, 

 which, in this country, is clearly mainly an immigrant from abroad, 

 has evidently visited us in considerable numbers this summer. One 

 got on the railway embankment near Dunbar on 2gth July was kindly 

 sent to me by Mr. D. Bruce, and I have to thank Mr. George Muir- 

 head, Speybank, Fochabers, for another caught near the Culbin 

 Sands on 26th August. Mr. Eagle Clarke tells me that while staying 

 at North Berwick in August, he was shown one which was captured 

 in that neighbourhood during the summer. In the south-west of 

 Scotland, two examples which I have seen were taken to Mr. R. 

 Service ; and he also had brought to him several larvae, one of which 

 he most kindly gave to me. It was of the green variety. Lastly, I 

 have had two larvae from Dunbar, namely, a full-grown brown one 

 which was found by a surfaceman on the railway embankment about 

 half a mile west of the town on loth September, and forwarded to 

 me by Mr. Bruce ; and a bright green one which I had the 

 satisfaction of finding myself on the nth September upon 

 Convolvulus arvensis in the same place where the other was got. 

 WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



