2go THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Berwick. A correspondent in The Scotsman of 8th 

 September reports a considerable number in the neighbour- 

 hood of Berwick, two at Berwick and others at Scremerston. 



We are also informed by Mr Bishop, of Berwick, that at 

 least half a dozen specimens were brought to him during 

 September. 



HADDINGTON. An example captured at Prestonkirk 

 was sent by Mr Alex. Macdonald to the Royal Scottish 

 Museum for identification on 17th September. 



Miss Balfour, of Whittingehame, had one sent to her 

 which was found alive on a road close to East Linton at the 

 end of August, and she has kindly drawn our attention to 

 notes in the Haddingtonshire Courier, from which it appears 

 that two were captured and another seen at Haddington 

 during September. 



Edinburgh. Captain K. C. Crosbie, M.C., informs us 

 that a male example was caught by a gardener in the grounds 

 of West House Asylum, Edinburgh, at the end of July. 



From Miss Balfour, Whittingehame, we learn of one 

 having been caught at Prestonhall, Midlothian, in the first 

 week of September. 



Linlithgow. A note published by Geo. C. Griffiths, 

 in the November number of The Entomologist \ records the 

 occurrence of two specimens on 3rd September, on the 

 window of the railway station at Bo'ness. 



Perthshire. We have received the following interest- 

 ing note from Mr Henry Coates, Curator, The Natural 

 History Museum, Perth : 



" During the last week of August and first two weeks of 

 September, nine specimens of the Convolvulus Hawk-moth, 

 Sphinx convolvuli, were sent to me at the Museum, eleven 

 were reported to me within the same period, and three in 

 October. These twenty-three specimens were all got in 

 Perthshire, and were from such widely-scattered districts 

 as Blair Atholl (3), Strathbraan (1), Murthly (1), Blairgowrie 

 (1), Coupar-Angus (1), Almondbank (2), Perth (10), Barnhill 

 (1), Glenshee (1), and Struan (2). Most of them seem to 

 have been taken in gardens. The Convolvulus Hawk-moth 



