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females of Acherontia Atropos is smaller, but still very con- 

 siderable; it has not been ascertained with any degree of 

 accuracy. Well, then, how is the race continued ? Do the 

 few fertile females deposit their eggs in the autumn during 

 the great festival of honey-sucking? or after honeysuckle, 

 marvel of Peru, petunias, verbenas and geraniums have been 

 laid under contribution, and the pregnant female nourished 

 with an abundant supply of sweets? According to the con- 

 current testimony of continental entomologists the eggs are 

 laid and the larvse are hatched in the autumn, the latter 

 feeding up quickly, and retiring beneath the ground before 

 the winter has deprived them of the means of sustenance: it 

 will be found that there is abundant time for this state of 

 maturity to be attained. A few moths may remain unde- 

 veloped until spring ; but I take it a vast majority emerge at 

 the end of August or during September of the following year. 

 — Edward Newman.^ 



Sphinx Convolvuli at Maldon. — Sphinx Convolvuli has 

 been found about here tolerably plentiful, my pupils having 

 secured about a dozen specimens. Also Colias Hyale has 

 been about here in the lucerne-fields. — {Rev.'\ J. W. Mills; 

 St. Lawrence Hectory, Maldon, Essex, October IJ, 1875. 



Sphinx Convolvuli at IVinchmore Hill. — On the 18lb of 

 September one of the national school-boys here brought me 

 a perfect specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli. — D. G. Lathom 

 Browne ; Uplands, IVinchmore Hill, October 1, 1875. 



Sphinx Convolvuli in the West of Scotland. — The West of 

 Scotland must be included among the numerous lists of 

 localities which have this year been visited by Sphinx 

 Convolvuli. I have just received one, which was caught in 

 a greenhouse at Row, near Helensburgh. — J. H. Pearson; 

 208, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, October 2, 1875. 



Sphinx Convolvuli at Hazeleigh, Essex. — I picked up a 

 mutilated specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli on a public road 

 near Hazeleigh Rectory, on September 18th, I hear that the 

 species has also been captured at Maldon this autumn. — 

 Gilbert H. Raynor ; St. John''s College, Cambridge, October 

 14, 1875. 



Sphinx Convolvuli at Hastiiigs. — While playing croquet 

 about the end of September last J was surprised by seeing a 

 fine specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli hovering over a bed of 



