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pigmy specimens of L. corydon from the Dover cliffs, smaller than 

 many L. icarus. There the food -plant is spread over a wide area, 

 sometimes growing luxuriantly in protected hollows, at others 

 growing very sparsely on the exposed cliffs. I have always 

 considered the small dwarf specimens as having probably 

 suffered from lack of food in tlie larval state, and, as a matter of 

 fact, often find them in the more exposed situations, especially 

 when freshly emerged. I have specimens of L. bellargus 

 probably not larger than my largest L. minima, which I have always 

 supposed were dwarfed in the same way. I dare say Mr. Gush 

 would find dwarf specimens every year ; I have seen them now, 

 without exception, for many years successively at Dover. All 

 the genus seems especially liable to this peculiarity in a state of 

 nature. I have some very small L. icarus captured flying among 

 a large number of normal-sized males. L. medon varies very 

 much in the same direction. — J. W. 'J'utt. 



Sphinx convolvuli. — The following are additional records : — 



Scotland. — I have to record the capture of two specimens, 

 and also one of Acherontia atropos, in this district, during the 

 month of September. — W. Pringle ; 168, Croft St., Galashiels. 



Lancashire. — 1 have had brought to me three specimens, all very 

 mucli worn. I also took one Choerocampa celerio, but unfortu- 

 nately let it escape. — H. Murray ; Lowbank Villas, Carnfortli. 



Cambridgeshire. — I captured three specimens after the 3rd of 

 September in a garden, where, in 1885, I captured eleven. I have 

 no doubt had I been able to look after them earlier this year I 

 should have taken a great many more. I have taken them, 

 without exception, flying at the flowers of the tobacco plant, 

 which proves a great attraction for moths, especially hawk-moths, 

 right on up to the end of October. Besides these S. convolvuli I 

 have heard of several others being seen or taken in the district. 

 — Wm. Farren, jun. ; 14, King's Parade, Cambridge. 



Surrey. — A specimen was captured flying during the daytime 

 in Battersea Park Road, on the 6th of September, — T. Sutton. 

 I took one specimen flying in a garden at dusk about September 

 12th. I have heard of another which was bred from a larva 

 found feeding upon the common bindweed two years ago. — H. M. 

 Lee : Gladstone House, Sutton. 



Hampshire. — During September I captured, early in the 

 evening, eight specimens, and saw several oihers. It appeared 



