NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 157 
ACHERONTIA ATROPOS AT GREENWICH.—On May 18th last one 
of my boys took a fine specimen of the above insect resting on 
some palings a few yards from the Greenwich Road.—C. Levert ; 
104, Malpas Road, Brockley, May 26, 1886. 
ACHERONTIA aTROPOS.—As the past season has been so 
prolific in producing A. atropos, it may perhaps be interest- 
ing to relate a little incident which happened in a village 
near Saffron Walden, Essex, in the year 1876. <A farm 
bailiffs cottage was luxuriantly covered by the nightshade 
(Solanum dulcamara), which in the autumn was all but stripped 
of the leaves by numbers of larve of A. atropos. ‘The ignorant 
owner, after holding a consultation with the village people, 
came to the conclusion that it was a visitation of locusts, and 
set to work to kill the lot. After hearing of this I sent word 
to the man that he had done a foolish thing, as he might certainly 
have made a good profit by them. I saw him only the other 
day, and he was even then still lamenting his precipitation.— 
J. JAGER; 180, Kensington Park Road, W., May 22, 1886. 
HYBERNATION OF DEIOPEIA PULCHELLA.—Has any one before 
made the observation as regards the hybernation of this insect ? 
for besides the specimen noted last month (Kntom. 127) by 
Mr. T. R. Sanders, as taken on May 25th, 1885, I can also 
record the capture of a specimen by myself on May 18th, 1878, 
at Bournemouth; and I particularly noticed at the time that it 
had a more faded appearance than those taken in the autumn.— 
J. M. ApyE; Somerford Grange, Christchurch, May 19, 1886. 
[Deiopeia pulchella does not hybernate in the perfect state, 
but emerges from pupa in May. Specimens have previously 
been observed in England during May, and also in June, July, 
and August, though examples have been more frequently met 
with in this country in September and October. ‘The species is 
probably not permanently established in Britain.—R. S8.] 
BomByx QUERCUS ON THE Istanp or Hoy.—On referring to 
Mr. J. Jenner Weir's ‘‘ Notes on the Lepidoptera of the Orkney 
Islands” (Entom. xv. 1), I am surprised to find that Bombyx 
quercus is not included among the list of captures on the Island 
of Hoy. It surely must have been overlooked. During the 
month of July last year, on the north end of that island, I found 
the larve of this species actually swarming on the heather; I 
