94 LEPIDOPTERA. 



bridge, Hants, and one at Yarm, Yorkshire, taken at rest in 

 an old summer-house (Int. viii. pp. 178, 195 and 202). 



This last specimen laid a few eggs. 



At the October Meeting of the Entomological Society of 

 London, '^ Mr. Syme exhibited a female specimen of Sphinx 

 ConvuhuU, which had emerged from the pupa on the 15th 

 September. It had been produced from a larva found in 

 a potato field at Deal in the autumn of last year, and had 

 remained nearly a year in the pupa state" (Zoologist, 7269). 

 Mr. Syme had dissected the specimen and exhibited the eggs, 

 which were in a very undeveloped state, evidently implying, 

 that had that specimen been at large, the process of ovi- 

 position would not have taken place till after hybernation. 



Some surprise has often been expressed that the larva of 

 Sphinx Convohuli is so seldom observed ) of Spliinx Li- 

 gustri, we see the larva far more frequently than the perfect 

 insect, but the converse is the case with *S. ConvolvuU. Mr. 

 D'Orville has observed in the Zoologist, p. 6818, "that on 

 the 14th of October, 1859, he obtained a nearly fidl-grown 

 larva of ^. ConvolvuU; it was dug up in a potatoe field, and 

 was so covered with wet dirt, that he infers it conceals itself 

 under ground by day and feeds by night," 



Sphinx Pinastri; at the February Meeting of the Ento- 

 mological Society of London, Mr. Sealy exhibited a specimen 

 of Sphi?ix Pinastri, which he had been assured was captured 

 by a young Entomologist the previous summer at Romsey, 

 Hants ; the specimen was taken whilst flying round a fir tree. 

 Mr. Sealy was asked whether there was any likelihood of the 

 specimen exhibited being a foreign example, which had been 

 inadvertently placed amongst insects from the locality men- 

 tioned ; to this Mr. Sealy replied, that the brother of the 

 reputed captor had some time previously visited Switzerland 

 and there taken a few insects, but he was assured that the 

 S. Pinastri was not one of the Swiss captures. 



