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a room in the street a few days before. Since then I have received 

 four. One deposited four eggs the night before I received it, 

 which were unfortunately thrown away ; and although I kept it 

 until it died it did not lay any more. I have heard of several 

 others being taken near here. — A. Druitt ; Christchurch, 

 Hants, September, 1885. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Rotherhithe. — I have taken a good 

 specimen of this moth here. It flew into an oil shop, in the 

 Lower Eoad, on the evening of August 28th, probably attracted 

 by the gas-light, and settled on the wall. — A. E. Cook; 

 31, Lower Road, Rotherhithe, S.E. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Holloway. — A specimen was brought 

 to me alive on September 5th, having been caught in my imme- 

 diate neighbourhood, and, although captured by a novice, not a 

 scale was disturbed ; in fact it looked as if it had just emerged 

 from the pupa. The specimen has been seen and identified by 

 Mr. Cooke, Naturalist, of Museum Street. — J. P. Mutch; 

 359, Hornsey Road, Holloway, London, September 15, 1885. 



Sphinx convolvuli near Chichester. — Whilst looking at 

 some moths taken this yemr by two young entomologists, of the 

 ages of ten and nine years respectively, in the parishes of 

 Westhampnel and East Lavant, I was pleased to see that each 

 had taken a specimen of this Sphinx, one being taken in each 

 parish. — Francis C. Woodbridge ; Lewes, Sussex. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Leicester. — It is with pleasure that 

 I am able to record the capture of two specimens of Sphinx 

 convolvuli. One, a very fine specimen, was caught on a door in 

 early morning of August 31st; it is a very fine sj^ecimen, and at 

 the time of capture could not have been long out of pupa. The 

 other, badly crushed, was brought to me by some men on the 5th 

 inst. : they were both taken near the centre of the town. These 

 are two of the very few captures as yet recorded from Leicester- 

 shire. — W. Tristram ; Havelock Cottage, Gosling Street, 

 Leicester, Sept. 13, 1885. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Northampton. — On Sept. 5th I was 

 fortunate enough to capture four good specimens of Sphinx con- 

 volvuli, and four more during the next week. All were caught in 

 the same locality, namely, in a nursery outside the town, in which 

 there was a fine bed of sweet-scented tobacco plant, which seemed 



