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rather smaller tlian the type, and the two black spots in the centre of the 

 anterior wings are very indistinct, the upper one being very nearly invisible, 

 and the lower one much smaller than ni the typical form : the black spot 

 on the inner margin of the fore wings is also smaller than in the type. I 

 have also a specimen of this insect in which the right hind wing is 

 darker than the other wings, and is without the usual marginal row of blue 

 spots. I am unfortunately unable to give the date or place of capture of 

 this latter insect. — Hknry A. Hill; 20, Fellows Road, Hampstead, N.W., 

 November 16, 1888. 



Vanessa urtic^ var. — I captured a Vanessa urtlccB with the left fore 

 wing of a white colour and the rest of the butterfly presenting the usual 

 appearance, in the old chalk-pit known as " Thunor's Leap," on August 1st, 

 1888. Vanessa cardid was a common butterfly at Kamsgate during 

 the past season. In 1887 I did not notice it at all. — A. H. Swinton ; 

 Tudor Villa, Gery Street, Bedford. j 



Deilephila GALii IN CHESHIRE. — From September 4th last to the ■ 

 19th, I sent two or three of my family to tlie sand-hills, Wallasey, to search 

 for larvae of Deilephila yalii. They were there on eight occasions, and col- 

 lected thirty-five larvae. Between a friend and myself I kept twenty, dis- 

 tributing the remainder amongst my entomological friends. The twenty I 

 kept in a warm kitchen, and on October '^9th the first imago emerged, a 

 splendid specimen. Others shortly followed, but early in November three 

 cripples appeared, one after another. This somewhat alarmed me, as I was 

 afraid 1 was drying them too much. I however sprinkled a very little warm 

 water over them, but only did this once. Since then all have emerged in 

 splendid condition, with the exception of three still in pupa. The last to j 

 emerge was on December 9th. The result of the twenty larvae was ' 

 fourteen fine specimens, three cripples, and three still in pupa. — Samuel r 

 James Capper; Huyton Park, Liverpool, December 16, 1888. ; 



Deilephila galii at Eton. — At dusk on the evening of July '23rd, ; 



1888, a student brought me a fine D. galii he had just captured in a corridor , 



on the first floor, into which I presume it had flown through the open ? 



window. It appeared to be newly emerged, being quite perfect. Can any - 



reader inform me if it has been taken in this district before ? — J. C. O. j 

 Blair; Mr. Tarver's, Eton College, Windsor. [Among the many places of 



recorded capture of this insect in 1888, Reading appears to be the nearest ! 



locality to Eton. — Ed.]. i 



Deilephila galii in Derbyshire. — On July 21st, 1888, my son, * 

 aged eleven, caught a female D. galii hovering over flowers in our garden 

 here. He also took a male specimen, within ten minutes later. 1 have , 

 been collecting for the last twelve years, but never before heard of the ' 

 species occurring in this county. I have a specimen of Sphinx convolvuli 

 measuring five inches, taken near here m 1884, which is the only one 1 have 

 heard of in this district. — R. C. Bindley; Mickleover Vicarage, Derby, - 

 November 30, 1888. 



LiTHOSiA complana. — With regard to Mr. Jeffery's query (Entom. 

 xxi. 322) as to Lithosia complana being captured on the sandhills of the 

 Carmarthenshire coast, and asking whether this was not an uncommon 



