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to this Sphinx, and during most suitable nights in September I 
watched likely patches of bloom. The first I noticed on Sept. 12th, 
and I took a specimen at dusk the next day. During the 
moonlight nights in the middle of September convolvuli in- 
variably appeared just before the moon rose, in addition to their 
twilight feed. The latest I noticed at 11 p.m. Though attracted 
by light they would not feed by it, and I had better success in 
seeing, or rather hearing, them without a light. I could always 
tell when one was about by the loud whirr of its wings, and 
noticed that they invariably explored to leeward of a flower, but 
before feeding. I did not obtain more than three specimens, so 
interesting was their mode of feeding, &c., but a friend who 
resides about a quarter of a mile from me took one and knocked 
over another. He also described what I think must have been 
Cherocampa celerio, which he struck at, and as I captured a 
specimen, the only one I saw, on the 29th of September, with 
distinct marks of a blow on its thorax, my idea is borne out. 
During most nights in September I saw convolvuli ; neither cold 
nor wind seemed to affect them. Indeed, one was literally blown 
into a bed of phlox during the hot wind of October Ist. The 
first male that I noticed was on the 29th, all the earlier specimens 
appearing to be females. At the slightest movement S. convolvuli 
disappears, and if struck at is gone for the night. Other people 
in the neighbourhood have noticed them this year, and one non- 
entomological friend, who resides two miles from me, told me 
that two moths as ‘‘ big as blackbirds,” tried to get through the 
window at him. I should be much obliged if any of your 
correspondents would give me any hints about finding the 
caterpillars, as, though I offered hedgers, harvesters, &c., a 
shilling each for all “ grubs” found over a certain size, I did not 
succeed in getting a larva of S. convolvuli. Since writing the 
above on the 4th inst., S. convolvuli has turned up in great 
abundance, and I have taken eight more specimens; and one 
other good example of C. celerio.—Dovrer C. Epegrti; Firle, 
Lewes, October 8, 1886. ; 
SpHINX CoNVOLVULI.—On the 28th of September I found a 
perfect specimen of Sphina convolvuli at rest on a fence in the 
neighbourhood of Blackheath.—G. SuHuTE, jun.; 14). Crooms 
Hill, Greenwich, S.E. 
