328 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



279. Mdcroglossa Stellntarum. — This lively moth has 

 been very ubuiidant here during August and 8e])leinber. I 

 have frequently seen it in the streets of Gloucester, hovering 

 over jasmine-blossoms in front of houses ; one morning in 

 August even during a shower of rain. A few days since 

 I saw one attracted to a large gaudily-printed poster on a 

 board against a wall, on which it ultimately settled, and re- 

 mained some time, apparently enjoying the sunshine and the 

 odour of the printer's ink. — J. Merrin ; Gloucester, Oct. 3. 



280. Does Macroglossa Slellaiarum usually appear in 

 the Iiaago in the Autumn, and so Jtybernate ? and is it 

 double -brooded ? — I was fortunate enough in securing, early 

 in September, some fifty of the larvae, on Galium verum, at 

 Scarborough, and by the end of the month they had all be- 

 come pupae. These pupoe I placed in my cage, expecting 

 to see the perfect insects in May next, but was much sur- 

 prised yesterday (October 11) at finding a dozen fine speci- 

 mens, just euierged, and stretching their rich velvet-looking 

 wings at the top of the cage ! The room in which they are 

 placed has a north aspect, and has had no fire in it since 

 March last. I may mention also that this Sphinx has ap- 

 peared in nnusual numbers in this locality ; I have seen as 

 many as seven or eight on the flowers in my garden at one 

 time this season. I do not remember it here before. — 

 [!lev. Sir] C. R. Liyhtou, Bart.; Ellastoue, Ashbourne, 

 Derbysliire, August 12, 1865. 



281. Macroglossa, Stellatarum two winters in Pupa? — 

 My experience does not corroborate Mr. Cliff"ord's suggestion 

 on this subject (Entom. 298), as 1 never had a specimen 

 pass a single winter in the pupa stale, but corresponds with 

 that of Sir C. R. Lighten : the perfect insects have, with me, 

 invariably emerged in the late summer and autunni, the early 

 ones taking leave of me through an open window, the later 

 ones crawling up into a corner of the breeding-cage or the 

 cornice of a s^itling-room, and remaining perfectly quiescent 

 throughout the flowerless season : for frost and snow and east 

 winds they have no partiality. — Edward Neioman. 



282. Macroghtssa Stellatarum settling on Coal. — This in- 

 sect has been very common here and round about Maidstone 

 the lit.st three months. I saw it also on geraniums last week 

 ai Enfield. I observe AJr. Clifford's remarks (Entoui, 298) 



