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few minutes fluttering over some geraniums, where, by a quick 

 downward stroke, I managed to capture it. To my surprise and 

 delight I found it was a good specimen of Clioerocampa celerio. 

 It was raining rather hard at the time of capture. I caught it off 

 the same flower-bed from which I took Lyccena boetica on Sep- 

 tember 12th of last year. —Herbert E. Durham; 82, Brook 

 Street, Grosvenor Square, September 11, 1881. 



AcHERONTiA Atropos IN MANCHESTER, — In the first volume 

 of the 'Zoologist' (p. 31) one capture of a specimen oi Adierontia 

 Atropos, near Heaton Park, was recorded by Mr. R. S. Edleston. 

 If the insect was rare in 1843 it may be safe to suppose that it is 

 a still more infrequent visitor now. One was, however, caught 

 in Bowker Street, Higher Broughton, on June 19th. I did not 

 see it myself, but there need be no doubt as to the identity of the 

 moth, its captor— Mr. W. R. Credland, sub -librarian of the Man- 

 chester Public Library — being quite familiar with the species. It 

 was a small specimen, not more than half the size of one well 

 developed. Members of the Bury Natural History Society have 

 occasionally seen this moth at Manchester, Bury, Bolton, Brad- 

 shaw, and Birch, but it is marked in their lists as uncommon. — 

 Wm. E. a. Axon; Fern Bank, Higher Broughton, Manchester. 



Hepialus velleda in Surrey. — I might mention, in con- 

 nection with a paragraph in last month's 'Entomologist' (Entom. 

 xiv. 211), that a friend at Holmwood showed me a specimen of 

 H. velleda which he took in a lane near Mickleham Downs, Surrey, 

 about the beginning of June. — H. K. Harris ; 2, Pdchmond Villas, 

 London Boad, Kingston-on-Thames. 



Breeding Nola centonalis. — I have again succeeded in 

 breeding this delicate and variable species. This year it is much 

 earlier than in 1879, when I first met with it at Deal. In that 

 wet and cold season my first capture was on August 15th, but 

 this year they were nearly over by the 27th of Jul}'', and my larvae 

 commenced spinning up by the 4th of September. The larvae this 

 year fed up on clover. Evidently seasons much affect this insect. 

 The first specimen I ever took was at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, 

 on July 2nd, 1872, and that a worn female. In the cold season 

 of 1879 I captured a virgin female as late as September 1st. Two 

 months' difference! — W. H. Tugwell ; 3, Lewisham Eoad, 

 Greenwich, S.E. 



