380 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Rhopalocera in Monmouthshire. — On the 10th of August last I 

 took two splendid specimens of Vanessa c-album at Tintern, in a clearing 

 in a wood on the way from the village to the Devil's Pulpit. The place is 

 just opposite the Abbey. I also took about twenty specimens of Pararge 

 egeria, which was extremely plentiful. All of them were in very good 

 condition. On August 19th I returned to Tintern for a day, having been 

 to Cardiff, Swansea, and other places in South Wales in the meantime, and, 

 visiting the same wood, I took another beautiful specimen of F. c-album. 

 I also saw another very rubbed one. P. egeria was more plentiful than 

 before, but there were very few good specimens to be got. Argynnis paphia 

 was also plentiful on the blackberry-bushes, but it had evidently been out 

 some time, as none of the specimens I captured were worth their carriage 

 to the hotel. In the same place I also took Epinephele hyperanthes, 

 Pararge megara (extremely plentiful on one bank), Lycana icariis, Plusia 

 gamma, and a few other day-flying moths, besides all the commoner butter- 

 flies. Gonepteryx rhamni was fairly plentiful, also at Chepstowe. On 

 August 20th I returned to Hertford. On August 92nd, as I was out 

 hunting, I saw a single specimen of Colias edusa, but was unable to take 

 it, as it was flying very fast and up a sharp hill. Sugaring has been of 

 very little use here during August or the first half of September, the only 

 insect I have taken at all worth having being Catocala nupta. — S. P. 

 Andrews; 25, Castle Street, Hertford, Herts. 



Sphinx convolvuli. — The following additional records of the capture 

 this season of this species have been received: — 



Devon. — This hawk-moth appears to be common this year. In 1887 

 seven were captured in one garden, and one pitched on some flowers which 

 I held in my hand in broad daylight. In 1888 I captured several in my 

 garden, and saw many more ; and this year I have never failed to see one 

 when watching for them, but although the wild bindweed is found almost 

 everywhere in the hedges, I have never been able to discover traces of the 

 caterpillar of this moth. — Marcus L. Bridger, R.N. ; Walton Leigh, Sal- 

 combe, S. Devon. 



Leicester. — I took a specimen of S. convolvuli at rest on a gravestone in 

 Leicester Cemetery on the 13th of September last. — C. B. Headley ; 

 2, Stoneygate Road, Leicester. 



Hants. — Two specimens were taken at petunia flowers in the Isle of 

 Wight on Sept. llth and 12th. 



Derbyshire. — In August last a Sphinx convolvuli was found asleep in a 

 conservatory here. — R.C. Bindley; Mickleover Vicarage, near Derby, 

 Oct. 16, 1889. 



Deilephila galti, Parasites on. — The larvae of this insect was so 

 abundant last year that doubtless a goodly number of your readers have 

 reared the perfect insect, or been disappointed by breeding parasites. It 

 would, I think, be of interest to learn what hymenopterous and dipterous 

 parasites have been bred from these pupse. At present I only know two 

 species, Ichneumonidse, bred from them. The Rev. R. Peek, of Swefling, 

 near Saxmundham, had fourteen pupae from Aldborough, two of which were 

 ichneumoned. From one he bred a specimen of Tragus lictorius, a very 

 large and handsome species ; from the other two Amblyteles proteus, Christ. 

 These are both well-known parasites on the Sphingidae, but I am not aware 

 that D. gain has been recorded as one of their hosts, at least in this 



