64 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
APPEARANCE OF ACHERONTIA ATROPOS.—Can any lepidopterist 
who has been in the practice of breeding Acherontia atropos 
inform me if the late pupe which have not emerged in the 
autumn are likely to do so the following spring or summer, and 
which I believe to be the case in a state of nature; and also at 
what time of year are the eggs deposited? From observations 
taken of a caterpillar obtained in the month of August of last 
season it appears, on burying some inches below the surface, to 
form a large hollow cavity by opening or cementing the earth 
over and around it; in this it changes to the pupa state. By 
this means it evidently obtains a more equable temperature and 
amount of moisture. May not the cause of so many pup found 
not coming to maturity be from the fact of having been disturbed 
from their natural position? The pupa appears excessively 
sensitive, the one I had persistently objecting to being fully 
covered with earth on my having to move it for transit, and it 
died in November last. Both the larve and pups were some- 
what abundant in parts of Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, and 
Dorsetshire last season.—T. B. JErrgerys ; Clevedon, Feb. 6th. 
SPHINX CONVOLVULI IN NortH Wates.—Although Sphinx 
convolvuli appears to have been observed in so many places 
during last season I do not see any record of its occurrence in 
Wales. On the 12th of September I received three specimens 
from Llanfairfechan, Carnarvonshire, one of them still alive. 
Though I have known the place for some years, I never knew it 
to occur there before.—J. A. Jenkinson; 63, Bury New Road, 
Manchester, February 10, 1886. 
SPHINX PINASTRI IN ScotLaAnD.—The occurrence of S. pinastri 
in the Eastern Counties, reported by Mr. Cooper (Entom. 14), 
reminds me that while collecting during September, 1860, near 
Achnaeroish, in the Isle of Mull, West Scotland, my attention 
was drawn to a full-fed larva of a Sphinx, which was, I find from 
a note taken at the time, green, with one brown stripe and two of 
pale yellow, spiracles orange and black. ‘This larva was crawling 
down the trunk of a Scotch fir tree, and, after turning to a healthy 
pupa, the perfect Sphinx pinastri emerged on the 24th of the 
following July. The specimen still remains in my cabinet. In 
September, 1861, I found in the same wood a second larva, 
about half grown, but did not succeed in rearing it, as it died 
