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]jheasant's-eye Pinks, mostly at the former. They appeared 

 about eight p.m., and ceased flying about nine ; but after j^ack- 

 ing up on the morning of the 17th I went out about one a.m., 

 and heard the " whirr" of the moth. So I lighted a lantern, 

 and in a few minutes caught four specimens. They were in 

 fine condition when caught, but got much damaged in 

 transit, as I had no means of packing them with me. 1 have 

 no doubt they were bred in Orkney ; but on what can the 

 larvse have fed? There is no Convolvulus in Orkney, so far 

 as I know ; for though Neill gives C. arvensis as an Orkney 

 plant, no one has found it there since. — J. T. Boswell ; 

 JBalmnto, near Kirkcaldf/. [From the ^Scofiish Naiuralist.''] 



Sphinx Convolvull at CliJ'lon.— On the 1 3th of October l 

 took a specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli in the conservatory 

 attached to Granby House. — W. K. Mann; 14, JVellington 

 Terrace, Clifion, Bristol. 



Sphinx Convolvuli at Winchester. — I took a very fine 

 specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli, while hovering over a bed 

 of geraniums, in this ciiy, during the first week of September. 

 — E. F. Johns; Winton House, IVinchester. 



Deilephila Galii near Norwich. — On the 11th of August 

 Mr. James Stally captured a fine specimen of Deilephila 

 Galii at Lakenham, Norwich. — John Parker; 6, Surrey 

 Terrace, September 30, 1876. 



Deiopeia pulctiella and Sphinx Convolvuli near Christ- 

 church. — Some of your readers may be interested to know 

 that Deiopeia pulchella has appeared this season in the 

 neighbourhood of Christchurch. On the 6th of October, 

 while walking with my pupils on the sand-hills between 

 Christchurch and Bournemouth, I caught two fine sjoecimens 

 of this beautiful insect, evidently only recently emerged from 

 the chrysalis. Unfortunately one made its escape, but the 

 other is now on my setting-board. A few days previously one 

 of the boys gave chase to another near the same place, but 

 falling among the ferns he lost sight of it. ] think this is the 

 first instance of three having appeared at the same place 

 during the same season. 1 have also to record the capture 

 of a fine specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli on the 2nd of 

 October, bv one of my pupils. — IV.McHae; Christchurch 

 School, Hants, October 11, 1876. 



Deiopeia pulchella at Bournemouth, — My jjupils and 



