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centre ; above each spiracle is a w.irt-likt^ 1 iihercailar slight, eminence ; on the eloping 

 surface, in front of the segments, arc a pair of transrersely elongate oval black -brown 

 rough spots ; the anal tip is dark brown. 



On August 2nd, I opened a stem and found the pupa lying in a small cleared 

 space just above the middle of the mine, its head uppermost in a slanting direction 

 towards the entrance, its tail steadied by a few threads spun on some frass, of which 

 the mine below was fidl, there was some also above, and a little about the entrance, 

 dry and mixed with silk : the pupa itself was a quarter of an inch long, rather slender, 

 the thorax rounded and well-defined, emitting a few bristly hairs, the head and eyes 

 rather prominent, wing-covers long, the leg cases reaching to the penultimate abdo- 

 minal ring from which they hung free ; on the abdomen were sub-dorsal, lateral, and 

 sub-spiracular rows of blunt hook -like processes, in pairs, those on the last ring the 

 most projecting : the whole surface rather glistening, and the colour a dark bronzy- 

 green. — Id. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Epsom. — As I have seen so many instances of the occur- 

 rence of Sphinx convolvuli in 1875 noticed in your Magazine, it may not be uninter- 

 esting to your readers to give four more. On the 17th September, a beautiful 

 specimen was brought me by a gardener, who topk it on some palings close by ; 

 anotlicr was sent mc on the 23rd September by some gentlemen, who caught it while 

 smoking in a verandah ; a few days after this, two more specimens were seen flying 

 round a holly tree on the lawn. — A. V. Jones, The Slirubbery, Epsom : January 

 2,Uh, 1876. 



Note on svgaring. — I think your correspondent, Mr. W. Sandison (ante, 

 p. 207), should have had more than one evening's ti-ial before piiblishing his ex- 

 perience of sugaring near ivy when in bloom. He says, " the night was peculiarly 

 favourable for the trial," &c. He ought to liavo stated if there had been rain during 

 the earlier part of the day, or if a heavy dew were on the ground ; as it is well 

 known that flowers saturated with wet lose'their attraction for insects. I am led to 

 suspect this was the case, as Mr. Sandison says he only found five or six moths on 

 the ivy, whilst they occurred in profusion on the sugared sticks. His theory would 

 have been much more conclusive had tlie moths been plentiful on the ivy flowers, as 

 well as on the sugar, for of course, if the flowers were wet, the greater probability 

 of the moths being attracted to the sugared dry sticks placed on the gi-ound by your 

 correspondent. — Gko. T. Pokkitt, Huddersficld : February Uh, 1876. 



Capture of living Hemipiera, natives of the Cape of Good Hope, in the London 

 Bocks. — Early in September last, the brother of a friend of mine observed, upon a 

 piece of old sail at the river entrance of these docks, some creatures in motion, and 

 having procured a boat hook or an instrument of a similar kind, he succeeded in 

 landing the fugitives — three in number. They were handed to me, and I soon 

 ascertained they were the Cryptacrus jnnguis, G-erm. They appeared to be as healthy 

 as though they had been snatched from off their food plant, and had evidently fared 

 well on their passage hither. What they could have subsisted upon is a mystery, as 

 tlie vessel in which they are supposed to have come, either the " Princess of Wales " 

 or the " Antipo<lcs," brought only the usual cargo of hides, tallow, wool, &c., from 



