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J. Howard Hall ; Derby House, Bury. Two specimens near 

 Bolton, one on the doorstep of Astley Bridge Church by the 

 vicar, on August 31st; the other near Horwich, on Sept 4th. — 

 Chas. E. Stott; Lostock, Bolton. 



Warwickshire. — Two fine specimens have lately been captured 

 in Birmingham. I have myself caught one of the handsome 

 larva of this moth at Sparkbrook, Birmingham. — W. T. Raine ; 

 43, Newport Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham. 



Worcestershire. — I have been successful in taking fourteen 

 specimens flying round the flowers of Nicotina affinis. The first 

 was caught August 27th, the remainder at intervals up till 

 September 9th. — William H.Edwards; 21 Pitmaston Road, 

 Worcester. 



Cambridgeshire. — Two specimens were taken near Cambridge, 

 one in a house in Mill Road on August 19th, and another early 

 in September on the Newmarket Road by a boy. — Albert H. 

 Waters ; Willoughby House, Mill Road, Cambridge. 



Buckinghamshire. — A fine specimen was taken in a cleft of a 

 tree in Chalfont Park, on August 20th, and brought to me. — 

 J. Seymour St. John ; Chalfont St. Peter, Slough. 



Suffolk. — I caught, on September 2nd, at Lowestoft, a perfect 

 specimen of Sphinx convolvuli. — F. J. Stoneman ; 43, St. John's 

 Park, Highgate Hill. 



Kent. — On Sept. 3rd a labouring man brought me a specimen 

 of S. convolvuli in fair condition : I also saw one at rest on a 

 gas-lamp on 7th inst., but was unable to effect a capture. — W. H. 

 Cheesman; Rose Villa, Coolinge, Folkestone. A specimen 

 exhibited alive at the South London Nat. Hist. Society's Meeting, 

 Sept. 8th, by Mr. Trimmer Williams, was found on the window 

 of his house, Sidcup, on the same day. — John T. Carrington. 



Sussex. — Thirty-five specimens have been secured in my 

 garden here, and in addition to these I have captured and re- 

 leased upwards of twenty specimens. I have also seen a great 

 many others. I only obtained one variety, a female with a broad 

 black bar just above the tail. They appeared the second week in 

 August, and are still on the wing (September 21st). — Dover A. 

 Edgell ; Firle, near Lewes. On August 29th last a guard at 

 the Groombridge Railway Station presented me with a large 

 specimen. On the evening of Sept. 12th I captured another 

 specimen at a petuuia-bed in the garden, very perfect and 

 entom. — Oct. 1887. 2l 



