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should have suggested that Polyommatus Hippothoe might 

 have been the insect seen. — Edward Newman.] 



239. Acherontia Atropos at LylJiam . — This has been a 

 fruitful season for the hirvae of tliis noble insect. About the 

 end of July I began to receive the larvae nearly full-fed. At 

 the beginning of August I received several puj)ie, and more 

 are being brought me. At the end of August 1 had six brought 

 in one day, and one larva only about half-fed ; and, strange 

 to say, 1 had on the 13th of that month the perfect insect 

 just out, not the least wasted ; and on the 8th of September 

 another : they both are now on the setting-boards. So that 

 I had the larva, pupa and perfect insect at the same time. 

 Nearly all the larvae and pupa3 were taken in potato-fields, 

 the crops on these fields last year being oats, the farmers 

 here not being allowed to grow two crops of potatoes in suc- 

 cession, except in gardens and small patches. I have now 

 about forty pupae, which, if kept in soil, will not come out 

 before next May, or the beginning of June : the potato-plant 

 is then just appearing above the ground. This 1 believe to 

 be the general state of the insect here. It is possible to force 

 them out this autumn, and probably the two perfect insects, 

 which I have only lately received, have been forced out by 

 some means. Should these live over the winter, I do not see 

 how they could deposit their eggs in May or June. I have 

 known them to be kept by the country people here, in 

 a common toy -box upon the shelf in a warm house, all the 

 winter, without the least particle of soil, and to have come 

 out perfect the summer following. 1 have always found them 

 very difficult to breed, probably from being kept too hot and 

 dry. P.S. — Since writing the above I have had the perfect 

 insect. — William Gregson ; Lyiliam, September 17, 1865. 



240. Pnp<B of Acherontia Atropos and Larva of Sp/iin.v 

 Convolvuli near Devonport. — This afternoon I had brought 

 me two pupaB of Acherontia Atropos and one larva of Si)lnnx 

 Convolvuli, captured a mile or two from the town : the latter 

 is about half-fed, and is feeding freely on Convolvulus 

 arvensis. I hope to obtain more from the same locality, as 

 the food-plant is very abundant there. — W. Hayward ; 32, 

 William Street, Morice Town, Devonport, Atignsi 23, 1865. 



241. Trochilium chrysidiforme at Folkestone. — Ou Tues- 

 day, the Gth of June, 1 captured a fine specimen of T. 



