NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 259 



Glamorganshire. — It was my fortune to capture a good specimen of 

 Sphinx convulvuli on the night of September 11th, about half-past eleven, 

 hovering over the flowers of a balsam I have growing in ray garden. I 

 hear my friend Mr. Allen, of Porthkerry, about seven miles from here, 

 caught two S. convolvuU about a fortnight since, hovering near some sweet- 

 scented tobacco plants. — G. A. Birkenhead ; Downs View, Penarth, near 

 Cardiff. 



Lancashire. — On August 24.th I had a large Sphinx convolvuU brought 

 to me by a friend. Tt was caught by his gardener, settled on the wall of 

 one of his greenhouses in his garden at Didsbury, near Manchester. The 

 same night another was seen, and again on the 25th, both times flying 

 over the flowers of the white tobacco plant. On the 26th I went with the 

 hope of catching it and succeeded. — T. G. Mason; 8, Landsdowne Pioad, 

 Higher Crumpsall, Manchester, September 16. 



Aberdeenshire. — A fine specimen of Sphinx convolvuU was taken here 

 on August 27th, 1889. There are always one or two taken here every 

 year. — L. G. Esson; 46, North Charlotte Street, Aberdeen, N.B. 



Sphingid.e in Kent. — On August 22nd I captured a fine female 

 specimen of Sphinx convolvuU, hovering over the flowers of NicoUana 

 ajinis (tobacco-plant). I took a second specimen at the same place on the 

 3 1st, a male, in fairly good condition. I might also mention that I was 

 fortunate in finding a larva of Charocampa porcellus and also one of 

 Acherontia atropos in this neighbourhood ; both of them have retired 

 underground to effect their transformation. — Thomas Willson ; Dudley 

 House, Ramsgate, September 4, 1889. 



Arctia caia. — I have bred over 700 imagines of A. caia without 

 obtaining a single striking variety. One had hindwings nearly all yellow, 

 and several had all the black spots banded into bars. These larvae were 

 fed on white parts only of lettuce and cabbage. — W. H. Tunley ; 41, 

 Chichester Road, Landport, September 16, 1889. 



Malformed Liparts dispar. — I have bred a good many males of 

 Liparis dispar with a rounded piece taken out of one or both hind wings; 

 is this common? — W. H. Tdnlet; 41, Chichester Road, Landport, 

 September 17, 1889. 



[In Entom. vol. xi., p. 170, is a reference to this peculiar mal- 

 formation which is figured in the coloured plate, to which the reference 

 belongs. It is there stated that " Mr. Enock bred in 1887 upwards of 

 eight hundred males and females of this species, and nearly all had the 

 underwings notched as seen in the illustration." In his papers upon 

 '• Variation of Insects," Mr. Cockerell (Entom. 149) remarks upon this 

 form.— J. T. C] 



Stauropos fagi in Wilts. — Mr. Searancke's note in the last number 

 of 'The Entomologist' (Entom. 212) has reminded me of another locality 

 for S. fagi, which I believe is very little known to entomologists, viz., 

 Groveley Wood, near Salisbury. I took three S. fagi there in 1887, on 

 the 2nd, 4th, and 13th of July, and a friend of mine took another. I had. 

 very little opportunity of working the wood, but I believe if thoroughly 

 worked it would yield some good species. — Leonard S. Sellon ; Davos- 

 Platz, Switzerland. 



