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Can- Wood, a splendid specimen of C. xerampelina ; it looked 

 as fresh as if it had just emerged irora the pupa. I saw 

 another, hut lost it. 1 think it is a new locality for this 

 insect, as I have never heard of its having been taken before. 

 The same day I had brought me a splendid specimen of 

 Sphinx Convolvuli, which had been taken off a door-knocker. 



— W. Clark ; Doncaster, August 18, 1868. 



Sphinx Convolvuli and Deilephila lineata at Darlington. 



— I took a fine specimen of D. lineata, at geraniums in my 

 garden here, on the 14th inst. Several Sphinx Convolvuli 

 have been taken at gladiolus-flowers in the town of Wol sing- 

 ham, by collectors there, this last week. — Win. Backhouse ; 

 St. John's, near Wolsinghain, August 21, 1868. 



[A great number of Sphinx Convolvuli have been taken 

 near Canterbury. — E. Netvman.] 



Chosrocampa Elpenor and Sinerinthus Populi. — Can any 

 entomologist explain the following remarkable circumstance? 

 A friend of mine had a larva, about an inch long, of the 

 elephant hawk-moth (C Elpenor), brought to him about three 

 weeks ago, which was found on some bogbean about four 

 miles from here. We went there and found more than 

 twenty, and afterwards three or four on bedstraw. I had four 

 pupaj, out of those 1 found, which changed about a fortnight 

 ago. Fully expecting them to remain in the pupa state until 

 next June, imagine my surprise when, on looking at my 

 pupae this morning, I found two imagos emerged. This seems 

 extraordinary, as both the ' Lepidopterist's Calendar' and 

 Mr. Newman's ' British Moths' say that the moth is found in 

 June and the caterpillar in August. Has any other entomo- 

 logist experienced this unusual occurrence ? My friend had 

 a poplar hawk-moth (S. Populi), apparently fresh from the 

 pupa, given him about a week ago : could this be from last 

 year's larva? — A. Mathews ; Oxford, August 5, 1868. 



Macroglossa Slellatarum and NecropJiorus Vespillo at 

 Penzance. — The humming-bird moth (Macroglossa Stella- 

 tarum) and the burying beetle (Necrophorus Vespillo) both 

 occurred in my garden yesterday. I do not know that the 

 latter is scarce here, but I do not recollect having ever seen 

 it in this neighbourhood. — Thomas Cornish; Penzance, Au- 

 gust 15, 1868. 



Death of Yama-mai Larva. — With reference to your 



