lb THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Sphinx convolvuli. — At Crouch End, last autumn, I saw a 

 specimen of Sphinx convolvuli just under a gas-lamp close to 

 Higligate Archway, but, not having a net with me, I could not 

 capture it. A friend also received a specimen from Lowestoft, 

 taken last season. — R. James ; Upper Holloway, Dec. 0, 1886. 



Sphinx convolvuli. — This insect, which was unusually plenti- 

 ful in this neighbourhood last year, has been of very rare occurrence 

 this year. I had a specimen brought me on October 4th, which 

 is the only one I have seen. For several evenings in September 

 I watched flowers which are attractive to this Sphinx, but I did 

 not see one. Mr. Adye, of Somerford, met with the same bad 

 luck, after having watched attentively for several weeks. Mr. 

 Edgell seems to have been very fortunate at Lewes. — A. Dorritt; 

 Christchurch. 



Chqerocampa celerio at Hastings. — I have in my possession 

 a male specimen of the above, taken at the latter end of Sep- 

 tember, 1886, in a small garden in the suburbs of this town, by 

 Miss Gooch. It was seen the day before its captui'e in the 

 same place. It is in perfect condition, and apparently had not 

 long left the pupa state. I see Morris, in his work, gives St. 

 Leonards as a locality for it, and another specimen was recorded 

 as being captured there last year. — Charles Partridge, Major; 

 Royal West Kent Regiment, Tonbridge, December 30th, 1886. 



Bombyx quercus, CALLUNiE, OR ROBORis ? — In looking over 

 the other day some old numbers of the ' Entomologist," I came 

 upon an article by the late Edward Newman on this subject. It 

 occurs in No. 10, January, 1865 (vol. ii., p. 137), and contains a 

 full life-history of B. callunce, the same of B. quercus, followed 

 by a differentiation of the two species, which seems to have been 

 made out with great care. Perhaps the differentiation might be 

 repeated for the benelit of those who do not possess the early 

 numbers of the ' Entomologist,' unless there is good ground for 

 supposing that Newman subsequently altered his opinion. His 

 account of B. quercus, in his ' British Moths,' looks rather as if he 

 had. My own knowledge of the subject is perhaps not worth 

 much, but here it is. At Hayward's Heath, Sussex, where I 

 lived till within the last few months, and collected for many 

 years, I both took and bred females of B. quercus or callunes, 

 pale and dark. I never noticed any difference between the 



