230 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Pupa of Eeebia epiphkon. — It may perhaps be of some 

 interest to other entomologists to record the finding of a pupa of 

 E. epiphron. In company with Mr. T. Richardson, of Gateshead- 

 on-Tyne, I visited the Lake District of Cumberland during the 

 first week of July, and went to the locality where I had previously 

 taken great numbers of E. epiphron. The morning was dull, with 

 a cold south-east wind blowing, so that very few insects were 

 flying, although we found the butterflies we were looking for 

 plentifully, sitting on the grass, and in very fair condition. I, 

 however, found one that had just emerged from pupa, the wings 

 not being ([vy. I called Mr. Richardson's attention to this one, 

 and we commenced to pull up the sods of grass to try and find 

 the pupse. These we failed so to find ; but after a little more 

 searching I found one that had not come out. This emerged on 

 the Gth of July. I enclose you a drawing of the pupa. We stayed 

 in the locality for three days, but we had only about three hours 

 of sunshine. We took, along with the E. epiphron, about thirty 

 Larentia ccesiata and fourteen Emmelesia minorata {ericetata), 

 and many other moths of a commoner kind. I shall be glad to 

 go with other collectors next season if they will let me know, so 

 that we can arrange the time and place to meet. I should like to 

 know if any others have reared Erehia epiphron from pupa. — 

 George Dawson ; 6, English Street, Carlisle. " 



[The egg, young larva, and pupa of E. epiphron are described 

 by Mr. Buckler in his ' LarvtB of British Butterflies and Moths ' 

 (i. 33-35) ; the egg and larva, by Mr. Hellins in the same vol., 

 pp. 171-3. The young larva is figured at PI. vi., figs. 3, 3a. — 

 E. A. F.] 



Sphinx convolvuli in Essex. — In my garden I caught with 

 a net, on the 15th inst., a Sphinx convolvuli ; it is the first I have 

 seen this year. At sugar I am getting nothing but Mania maura 

 and Xylophasia monoglypha. — Thomas Bell ; Oakwood, Epping, 

 Aug. 33, 1888. 



Deilephila galii in Kent. — Between July 34th and August 

 4th I was fortunate enough to capture, near my house, nine 

 specimens of the above-mentioned insect, three of which were 

 very fine, and taken on one evening. Mr. Felix Oswald, who was 

 collecting at the same place, and with whom I became acquainted, 

 also captured eight specimens. One of the worn females laid 

 about a dozen eggs, seven of which have hatched, and I hope to 



