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recorded (Entom. 286). They seem very abundant round 

 here ; but most of the potato-diggers are rather afraid of 

 them, fancying them to be locusts ! indeed they go under 

 that name among the lower classes here. — Charles M. Bon- 

 nor ; Minehead. 



212. Acheroniia Atropos near Hull. — A score or two have 

 already been found, and doubtless numerous other specimens 

 would repay the search of the collector. We hear of them 

 from Whixley and the Hammertons, and very likely they are 

 pretty well distributed over the district. — Alfred Wright ; 

 Sigglesthorne Hall, Hull, August 7, 1865. 



213. Acherontia Atropos near Deionport. — On the 19th 

 inst. I had a full-fed larva of the above species sent me by a 

 friend residing a mile or two from this town, by whom also 

 another had been captured a few days previously. — W. 

 Hayivard ; August 23, 1865. 



214. Acherontia Atropos, 8fc., at Ipswich. — The weather 

 here was very wet for nearly a month during July and Au- 

 gust, and bad for collecting ; but is now very Bne. Many of 

 our usual insects are very scarce, and some have not appeared 

 at all. Acherontia Atropos has appeared this summer, and I 

 have now five in pupa. I took a few Agrotis lucernea and 

 Fidonia conspicuata in April, and some Lithosia complanula 

 in July. — Timothy Last ; Borough Road, Ipswich, Septem- 

 ber 8, 1865. 



215. Barren Females of Acherontia Atropos. — Atropos 

 larvae and pupae are imusually plentiful in this neighbour- 

 hood, as well as in Yorkshire and Lancashire. 1 have three 

 in my possession, and have heard of some seven or eight 

 more, all within a few miles. Are we to understand from 

 Mr. Newman's life-history of the species that al] the October 

 moths are barren females, or only that all the females appear- 

 ing at that time of year are barren ? If the former, is not 

 this the only species of Lepidoptera in which the female 

 makes her appearance first ? If any males do appear at that 

 time of year, has any one discovered any organic imperfection 

 in them ? In Mr. Newman's description of the pupa he does 

 not notice the two raised and granulated pear-shaped cover- 

 ings to the markings which, in the moth, are supposed to 

 resemble the cross-bones, and which are situated below the 

 "death's-head," at the junction of the thorax with the 



