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knapweed was plentiful in these glades, and upon it I saw the Butterfly settl 

 occasionally, but I could see nothing of Helianthemum vulgare at that time. Mi 

 BaiTett has seen the two specimens I kept and thinks them pretty, but rather smal 

 in size. He says he does not remember a locality so near the English border, am 

 thinks it worth recording. — A. Elliot, Caverton, Eoxburgh : September IQth, 188^ 



Phytometra cetiea and Emmelesia alhulata in Roxburghshire. — I took severs 

 specimens of Phytometra cB7iea on June 16th, and on the 29th, Emmelesia alhulatd 

 both in the finest condition, this being the first time I have found them in Roxburgh 

 shire. — Id. 



Sphinx convolvtdi in Roxburghshire. — I have just had given me a specimen ol 

 Sphinx contJolouU taken in this locality by a boy, but sadly dilapidated in it| 

 capture. — Id. 



Sj)hinx convolvuU at Armagh.— My neighbour, Mr. Thos. Smith, has jusj 

 brought over to me a specimen of this moth which was found by Mrs. Smith lyinjj 

 dead outside her window this morning. This is the first time I have heard of it; 

 occurrence in this neighbourhood. — W. F. Johnson, Winder Terrace, Armagh 

 September 21st, 1887. 



Sphinx convolvuU at Swansea, and Deiopeia pulchella at Folkestone. — I an, 

 able to chronicle two additional captures of Sphinx convolvuU, both in the course o' 

 September last. One was taken in the town of Swansea, the other about two miles 

 out of that town, by Raymond Burr. On looking through the collection of the lattei I 

 I found one example of 2). pulchella, taken by himself in August, 1886, at its ok" 

 habitat, Folkestone. The specimen is in very poor condition. — Lovell Keats' 

 27, Lowndes Square, S.W. : October Zrd, 1887. 



Concerning Deilephila euphorbice in Norfolk. — I think I can furnish a possible 

 explanation of Mr. Barrett's capture of Deilephila euphorbia in September. Thej 

 are in some years very abundant in the neighbourhood of the Bilbao Eiver in the 

 north of Spain during the month of June, and are not rare in September, and as 

 twenty or thirty steamers pass the coast of Korfolk every week carrying iron ore (c ^ 

 the north of England from that river, it is not much of a stretch of imagination tc ! 

 suppose that one hidden away in the folds of a sail, and disturbed in transit, wher I 

 near the coast, might land and be captured ; or eggs might be laid by a specimen o' : 

 a June importation, which, with the hot summer that we have experienced, might \ 

 be advanced to the imago state by September. 



It is a curious fact connected with D. celerio, and I believe also with D. 

 euphorbia, and probably with other Sphingidce, that their final transformation can ' 

 be so much accelerated by heat. I 



In the autumn of 1885 I found a Virginia creeper on my house in Spain swai-m- j 

 ing with the caterpillars of D. celerio of all sizes, from half-an-inch to full grown. 1 

 I collected and fed about six dozen of them, but the smallest did not assume the ' 

 pupa state until well on in November. The eai-liest pupae produced the imago i 

 without artificial heat in September, but I thought there was no chance of the ■ 

 later ones doing so until the following year j I therefore took the advice of a friend i 



