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Vanessa Antiopa at Eltham. — I this morning captured in my garden a very 

 fair specimen of Vanessa Antiopa flying round a plum tree. — A. H. Jones, Shrub- 

 lands, Eltham, Kent : beptemher \st, 1901. 



Vanessa Antiopa near Maidstone. — On Sunday last (25th) I saw a splendid 

 specimen of Vanessa Antiopa here. I was sitting in the verandah with my wife, 

 niece and brother-in-law, when it flew in and settled for a moment on the trellis at 

 the back of the verandah, about 6 or 7 feet from us. We all saw the white border 

 to the wings, and on showing ray wife the picture of the insect in Humphreys 

 and Westwood's work, she said at once that the border was much whiter than in 

 the coloured figure. Before a net could be got it was off. — Alfred O. Walkee, 

 Ulcombe Place, near Maidstone : August '27th, 1901. 



Vanessa lo, L., in Ireland. — I captured one at Enniscrone, Co. Sligo, the first 

 that I have taken in Ireland ; and curiously enough a few days after my return 

 Mrs. Johnson caught one at O'Meath, Co. Louth. She had no net with her, but 

 knocked it down with a tennis raquet, and brought it home in triumph. This but- 

 terfly has made quite an excursion into the north of Ireland, Donegal, Derry and 

 Antrim have all produced specimens. — W. F. Johnson, Acton Glebe, Poyntzpass, 

 Co. Armagh : September, \Q0\. 



LarvcB of Sphinx convolvuli in Yorkshire.— On August 30th a full grown cater- 

 pillar of the Convolvulus Hawk Moth {S. convolvuli) was found crawling across a 

 road close to the Monkton Main Colliery, at Eoystone,near Barnsley. Through the 

 kindness of several friends it came into my hands on September 1st, when I took 

 the following description of it :— Colour uniform bright green, no lighter on under 

 parts. Face green, witli four fine black stripes, the two centre ones forming a 

 V-shaped mark, with the apex at the mouth. Oblique stripes seven in number, 

 slightly more yellow than ground colour, but only just visible. Spiracles enclosed 

 in black blotch, another black mark bordering the top half of the oblique stripe, 

 and continued past it well on to back, there turning down towards tail and running 

 nearly to the angle of the next similar mark, this black mark was uniformly about 

 one-eighth of an inch broad. Horn long, nearly smooth, much curved, and sharply 

 pointed ; in colour bright orange-red, tipped with black. Legs black. Claspers 

 green. Length, about 3J inches, and rather stout in pi'oportion. 



Thinking it possible that where there was one larva there would be others, I 

 took the opportunity of running over to Monkton on September 2nd, on the chance 

 of obtaining another or two ; in this I was not disappointed. After a little trouble 

 I succeeded in finding the place where the first caterpillar had evidently been ob- 

 tained ; the bottom of a rail along the side of a field for some 200 yards was thickly 

 overgrown with the small field convolvulus (C. arvensis), this was so much eaten 

 that I believe about a dozen of these caterpillars must have fed up there. After a 

 careful search of about two hours' duration, I obtained four of them, all about full 

 grown. 



A most interesting feature of the " find " was the great variety of colour exlii- 

 bited. Of the four I found three were brown, one green, the latter differed from 

 the one first brought to me, and already described, in the following respects : — the 

 spiracles were narrowly outlined in red, as well as enclosed in dark blotch. The 



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