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plants too numerous to mention. On September 8th I was much 

 pleased by the head gardener bringing me alive a fine specimen of 

 Sphinx convolvuli that he had captured that morning. He said 

 that it was the first he had seen or heard of being taken in these 

 islands. I should like to know, as I may possibly visit this 

 island (Tresco), St. Mary's, and others again, whether this growth 

 of almost tropical vegetation has any appreciable effect on the 

 insect life, and also whether there are any published records of 

 entomological work done in the Scilly Isles. The few insects I 

 met with can be got a few miles from London, but as I took no 

 apparatus with me this does not count for much. — Arthur 

 Bliss; 43, Lothbury, London, November 21, 1881. 



[Consult the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe's paper, " Entomology at 

 Tresco and the Scilly Isles" (Entom, x. 295-7 ; December, 1877), 

 in which we read, " Sphinx convolvuli was common hovering over 

 various flowers at dusk, but the specimens were all more or less 

 battered." In Francis Walker's " Notes on the Insects of the 

 Scilly Isles" (Entom. vi. 3, 52, 78), species of all orders but 

 Lepidoptera and Coleoptera are referred to, and a detailed list of 

 the Diptera and Hymenoptera (especially the Chalcididce) cap- 

 tured, is given. — E. A.. F.] 



EuLEPiA GRAMMiCA. — This day I have had the pleasure to pin 

 in my cabinet a veritable British specimen of Eulepia grammica. 

 About two months ago I went over to Keighley, in Yorkshire, to 

 see an old man that my late friend T. H. Allis used to call upon. 

 His name is Jesse Miller, one of the older stamp of collectors, 

 who collected for love ; and, unless Labgry or Allis called, he 

 had no correspondents, still less with any dealers. Allis tried 

 hard to get the Grammica, but Jesse stuck to the moth. I asked 

 him who took it, and he told me it fell off a tree -branch whilst 

 " shakking boo's " — that is, shaking the boughs of trees for 

 caterpillars. I now copy from his letter to-day : — " I send the 

 moth you want, with thanks. It was taken in Wharfdale, about 

 forty-six years ago, by a person of the name of John Armstrong, 

 living at Addingham Low Mill, five miles from Keighley. You 

 need have no fear of its being British, and it is the only one of 

 the kind I ever saw." I may add that the specimen is old and 

 perfect, but badly set, and much smaller and duller looking than 

 any foreign specimen I have seen. It is a male. — J. B. Hodg- 

 kinsqn; 15, Spring Bank, Preston. 



