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It has, I am informed, been suspected that it may have been 
accidentally imported or otherwise. Jam positively assured by 
Dr. Hele that there is no ground for believing that there has 
been any attempt to acclimatise or artificially introduce the 
insect; and as far as I am able to ascertain there is no evidence 
of any such attempt. Iam not at liberty to disclose the precise 
loeality of capture. Isolated specimens have, it is true, been 
captured at Ipswich and elsewhere; but I may say that the spot 
where the largest number have been taken is not favourable to 
the view of an artificial introduction, it being inaccessible to 
dealers, who might have a motive to deceive, and to the public 
generally. It is possible that S. pinastri has for centuries 
inhabited some of our pine woods, where it occurs now from year 
to year; but this must be an open question; and it is, perhaps, 
more probable that it has, like some of our other rare Sphinges, 
made our country from time to time the land of its adoption. I 
submit that although its appearance is, perhaps, more local, it 
has with them an equal claim to be recognised as a British 
species. I may add that two specimens of Charocampa celerio 
were captured at Aldeburgh in October last,—one a perfect 
beauty; the other was knocked down from a window by a servant 
girl, and was sadly damaged by her duster. Acherontia atropos 
was very plentiful at Aldeburgh.—Sipnry Cooper; Friar’s 
Watch, Walthamstow, December 3, 1885. 
[If Mr. Cooper will refer to the ‘Entomologist’ Synonymic 
List of British Lepidoptera, he will find that Sphinx pinastri is 
now recognised as a British insect. —Ep.] 
ACHERONTIA ATROPOS AND SPHINX CONVOLVULI ABUNDANT IN 
Essex.—At Walthamstow I obtained about fifty larve of 
A. atropos, most of which I found myself in the potato fields. I 
also captured in my garden at Walthamstow six specimens of 
Sphinx convolvuli, but not in such fine condition as those which I 
took there ten years ago, as unfortunately I was a little too late. 
—Smpney Cooper. 
ACHERONTIA ATROPOS, &C., AT CHRISTCHURCH.—On the morn- 
ing of November 10th, 1885, a male specimen of A. atropos was 
brought to me alive by a little girl, and by the appearance of the 
insect it must have only just emerged from the pupa; but, as far 
as I could ascertain, it was found at rest on a potato-bed. ‘The 
