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under wing above the upper, and so disabled it enough to capture 

 it. It was a fine male specimen, and not in the least damaged 

 with the novel way of capturing butterdies. — G. Heseltine ; 

 Walhanipton, L3'mington, Hants. 



Deilephila galii at Hollo way. — On Friday last, about 

 8 p.m., my brother caught a specimen of DcilepJtila galii flying 

 round a bush of jessamine. — F. J. Stoneman ; 43, St. John's 

 Park, Upper Holloway, N., July 25, 1888. 



Deilephila galii in Buckixghamshire. — I wisli to record 

 the capture of a fine specimen of Deilephila galii, taken at rest 

 on a vine-leaf this afternoon in my garden. — W. Thompson ; 

 18:J, Stantonbury, Stoney Stratford, Bucks, July 23, 1888. 



Deilephila galii in Cumberland. — About 9.30 p.m., on the 

 2 1st of July, I captured with the net a fine specimen of Deilephila 

 gain hovering over a bed of sweet-williams. — Hugh Goodfellow ; 

 Stone House, Carlisle, July 23, 1888. 



Deilephila livorxica in Cornwall. — On June 13th I took 

 a specimen of Deilephila Uvoriiica in our garden here, and the 

 following night I took another within a yard or two of the same 

 place. — A. Mayne; Pons-a-Verran,Constantine, Penryn, Cornwall. 



Deilephila galii in Aberdeenshire. — On Tuesday, July 

 I7th, a fine specimen of the above species was captured in one 

 of the principal streets of this town, and is now in my posession. 

 I know of several specimens of this insect that have been found 

 wear here during the past few years. — Arthur Horne ; 48, Chapel 

 Street, Aberdeen, N.B., July, 1888. 



Sesia culiciformis var. — Respecting the communication 

 from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, which was read before the South 

 London Ent. and Nat. Hist. Soc. (Entom, p. 192) referring 

 to the ■white-banded variety of S. cidiciforinis mentioned in my 

 notes in the 'Field' (J 887, p. 828), it appears to be a form 

 unknown to the members of the Society who were present at the 

 meeting. I captured the specimen on June 14th, 1887, whilst it 

 was hovering round a birch-stump in West Wickham Wood, the 

 white band showing very conspicuously when flying ; Mr. A, 

 Thomson, who was with me at the time, saw the moth while alive 

 in my net. The usual red of the band, base of the wings and 

 thoracic markings, are all of a clear creamy white colour, without 



