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Sphinx Convolvuli at Peckkam. — I captured this morning 

 on my way to school, in the Clayton Road, High Street, 

 Peckham, a specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli. Having no box 

 I was obliged to make a paper-bag to put it in, and it 

 remained quiet for several hours. — Arthur A. Barrett; 

 34, Radnor Street, Peckham, London, October 4, 1875. 



Spliinx Convolvuli and Macaria alternata at Christ- 

 church. — Would it interest any of your readers to know that 

 Sphinx Convolvuli occurs in this locality regularly every 

 season during September? I have now on my setting-board 

 two fine specimens, caught on the .14th and 15th September. 

 Three years ago I captured in July several fine specimens of 

 Macaria alternata ; last year, two ; this season, only one. — 

 W. McRae; Christchiirch School, Hants, Sept. 22, 1875. 



Sphinx Convolvuli at Christchiirch. — Between the 17th 

 and 25th of September I had the good fortune to secure three 

 fine specimens of Sphinx Convolvuli. Do the females of this 

 species hybernate? If so, do they deposit their eggs before 

 or after hybernation? Having several times attempted to 

 procure eggs from captive females, I have in each instance 

 failed. I should be glad of any information relative to this 

 species which you or any of your correspondents can com- 

 municate. — JV. McRae ; Christchiirch School, Hants. 



Sphinx Convolvuli, Epunda nigra and Xylina petrijicata 

 at Newtoji Abbot. — On the 25th September last I captured two 

 fine female specimens of Epunda nigra at sugar, and on the 

 following night two more, — one at sugar and the other at 

 light; they have never been caught here before; indeed, I 

 had no idea that they came so far inland, they being generally 

 caught by the sea-side in Devonshire, as, for instance, Teign- 

 raouth, Torquay, &c. I also had the good fortune to catch 

 another fine Convolvuli, this making the fourth capture here 

 this year. Last night (October 7th) I captured, for the first 

 time, four specimens of Xylina petrificala at sugar; I believe 

 they are considered a very local species. — Charles G. Vicary ; 

 Knowles, Newton Abbot, October 8, 1875. 



Sphin.v Convolvuli, Glcea erythrocephala, S^c, at Wells 

 or in Wales.' — On showing my collection of Noctuse 

 the other day to the Rev. A. C. Hervey, he noticed a 

 moth which 1 had placed near Cerastis spadicea, thinking 

 it to be a variety of that species, as it was unknown 



