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eluding Macroglossa stellatarum and Pyrameis cardui for the first 

 time this season, in the first weeks of Octoher, than in the whole 

 summer previously. In fact this seemed to he the true summer. 

 Harold Hodge ; October 19th, 1908. 



CoLiAs EDusA AT Leatherhead, Surrey.^A neighbour of mine 

 brought me yesterday a male C. edusa he had caught with his hat 

 in a field here. Needless to say it was very worn. — Joseph H. 

 Carpenter ; Redcot, Belmont Road, Leatherhead, October 4th, 1908. 



AcHERONTiA ATROPOS AT RiNGWooD. — A fine perfect male speci- 

 men of this hawk-moth was brought to me on the 10th inst. by a lad 

 who had found it in his father's garden. — Chas. J. Bellamy ; Broad- 

 shard Cottage, Ringwood, October 11th, 1908. 



AcHERONTiA ATROPOS IN Inverness-shire.— Mr. Grant, Drumalan, 

 Drumnadrochit, has sent me a specimen of Acherontia atropos, 

 which was picked up on the road in the village of Milton, near 

 Drumnadrochit, on September 28th. It was dead when found. The 

 specimen is a large one.— Henry H. Brown ; Cupar-Fife. 



Acherontia atropos in Middlesex. — Mr. Broughton Edge, the 

 Revising Barrister for the Hammersmith district, informs me that 

 a specimen of this moth, taken in the neighbourhood, was brought 

 into his Court during the September sittings, and shown him by the 

 captor. — H. Rowland-Brown ; Harrow- Weald, October 24th, 1908. 



Sphinx convolvuli and Acherontia atropos in Selkirk. — A 

 specimen of each of these noteworthy moths was brought to me 

 yesterday, both having been caught in the town. S. convolvuli was 

 found behind a rain-pipe on the ground. It had lost a fore-leg, but 

 was otherwise in good condition and lively. A. atrojjos was found 

 creeping up a chimney-stack. It had been handled a good deal 

 before I got it, and was somewhat worn. — B. Weddell ; Selkirk, 

 October 23rd, 1908. 



Pyg^ra anachoreta, &c., in Essex. — Referring to Mr. George P. 

 Kitchener's note in last month's ' Entomologist,' on capturing a 

 female P. anachoreta in Essex, I would like to call attention to an 

 error on his part in saying the only records he can find of former 

 captures have been on the Kentish coast, as my find of wild ova of 

 this species at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in August, 1893, was 

 duly recorded in the ' Entomologist ' after the larvae had pupated. I 

 may mention that this brood was kept up by myself and friends for 

 nine years, when it became exhausted. — Miss A. D. Edwards; 

 The Homestead, Coombe Hill, East Grinstead, October 17th, 1908. 



Caradrina exigua at Chester. — A specimen of C. exigua, in. 

 fine condition, rewarded my search at the foot of the electric lamps 

 on the night of October 12th. This species was first recorded at 

 Chester by Dr. Herbert Dobie, who took a specimen at the electric 

 lamps in 1900. The second record fell to my share, September 25th, 

 1903.— J. Arkle ; Chester. 



Dasypolia templi at Chester. — I took a fine male at rest on 

 the city wall near an electric lamp, October 6th, 11 p.m. This makes 



