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marshes, the local name for the caterpillars here is " canker," 

 or "canker-worm." The larvai of Saturnia carpivi and 

 Cliceiocampa Elpenor could be got in ]/lenly by working for 

 them. The flower-heads of Valerian produced Eupithecia 

 vi?ninata. 



I left Ranworth with very few insects on my setting- 

 boards, and made the following " mem." for future trips : — 

 "Not to go alone; and to have a strong attracting light." 

 This is a most necessary thing for fen working. Probably the 

 great floods that occurred in 1875 — just at the time 

 A'', hrevilinea was out, and when the females ought to have 

 deposited their eggs — accounts for my want of success in 

 taking it this season. The men working on the marsh told 

 me that for two or three weeks the marshes were flooded to 

 a great height. At any rate, this year, this insect hardly 

 appeared at all ; I only heard of a solitary example being 

 secured, and that a worn one. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTUKES, &c. 



Lyc^na Acis. — My friend E. P. Breaks and I had the 

 good fortune to capture a dozen specimens of this butterfly, 

 near Cardiff" in 1876: they were flying in company with the 

 common blues in June last. — James E. Heath j Cardiff". 



Pupa of Sphinx Convolvuli in Thanet. — There have 

 been several notices this autumn of the capture of S. Convol- 

 vuli, so I conclude it will interest some of your readers to hear 

 that the pupa was dug up in a garden at Birchington, in Thanet, 

 the 17th or 18th of October. It was found by a boy digging 

 potatoes, and sent to me for Acherontia Atropos, but there 

 is no doubt about its being Convolvuli^ from the exaggerated 

 likeness which it bears to S. Ligiistri ; the curved, annulated 

 tube containing the proboscis, measuring nearly an inch and 

 a quarter in length ; the pupa is not more than two and a 

 half inches long. Last year, in this same village, the imago 

 abounded, as many as sixty being taken in one garden, 

 whilst this year there were but five : it is a place where one 

 might reasonably expect to find the larva but for the rigid 

 farming, which abhors a hedge and has no pity on the way- 

 side flowers. Possibly the eggs may have hatched frequently 



