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shall value any assistance which may be rendered. — Louis B. Prout ; 

 246, Richmond Road, N.E., October 8th, 1901. 



Erratum. — Page 296, lines 11 and 12, for '' extemalis'' read 

 " extimalis." 



CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



Sphinx convolvuli in 1901. 



Berkshire.— 1 had two .S'. convulvuU brought me last month, both 

 taken within a short distance of my house, and heard of several 

 others having been taken. — W. E. Butler; Hayling House, Reading, 

 Oct. 12th, 1901. 



Three specimens of S. convolcuU were sent to me by a friend, who 

 is one of the deacons at Wellington College, Berks, on Sept. 27th last, 

 and another was seen at the same place a few days later. — Chas. F. 

 Thornewill ; Calderhall Vicarage, Whitchurch, Salop, Oct. 18th, 1901. 



Bucks. — A living pupa of S. convolvuli was dug up in a potato 

 allotment near Haddenham on Sept. 19th last, and given to me. I 

 ascertained that the wild convovulus {Convolvulus arvensis) was growing 

 freely thereon. — W. H. Barton ; The Poplars, Spencer Road, Chis- 

 wick, Oct. 16th, 1901. 



Cornwall. — On September 21st I took on the wing in my garden 

 three specimens of S. convolvuii — two males and one female. I saw 

 one other specimen, but failed to capture it. One male was in perfect 

 condition, the others slightly damaged. The next evening, in torrents 

 of rain (it had rained incessantly throughout the day), I walked around 

 the garden and saw two more specimens on the wing, but climatic 

 conditions were totally against an attempt at capture. On Sept. 23rd 

 I captured a female example on the wing in perfect condition ; on 

 Sept. 27th another female, and on Oct. 2nd a male specimen— both 

 of the latter being slightly damaged. Three other captures have been 

 reported to me : one taken at rest on some coloured drapery hanging 

 on a clothes-line outdoors ; one on the wing, in the daytime, in a 

 pigeon-house, probably having been disturbed or dislodged ; and one 

 Hying in a bedroom in the twilight.— W. A. Rollason ; The White 

 House, Truro, October, 1901. 



Devonshire.—ViliQn I was staying at Dawlish this year a nearly 

 full-grown larva of S. convolvuli was brought to me on August 28th. 

 It had been taken in a garden in the neighbourhood. — Hugh Main ; 

 Forest Gate, London, E., Oct. 16th, 1901. 



Two fine specimens of S. convolvuli were captured in the town 

 during the first week in August, and are now in the possession of Mr. 

 H. E. Monk. Mr. J. Chichester, on Sept. 7th, gave me a perfect 

 specimen, evidently freshly emerged, taken at the bloom of tiie tobacco 

 plant at Grenofen. Of six insects seen he succeeded in taking two. 

 He states that two years ago they were still more common.— (Rev.) 

 W. J. Leigh Phillips ; Tavistock. 



Dorsetshire.— S. convolvuli was plentiful here during the month of 

 August, and I secured a good number of very fair specimens ; as usual, 

 they were mostly taken at tobacco plants. During September they 



