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A. pistacina, which retains the usual markings, but each 

 fore wing is ornamented with a large blotch of a metallic cast 

 near the hind margin, and reaching from the costal to the 

 inner margin. Can anyone account for such a variety ; and 

 is it usual ? — F. Stkwart ; New Cross. 



Captures near Uxbridgk. — Among my captures lately 

 have been specimens of the following insects : — Sphinx 

 convolvuli, Nola slrigula, Liparis dispar, Ennomos Juscan- 

 iaria, E. erosdiia, Selene illuslraria, Boarinia consorlaria, 

 PJiorodesma bojularia, Steriha sacrarid, Apamea Jibrosa, 

 Xantliia aurayo, Cirrhcedia xerampelina, &c. 



Capturks np:ar Winchester. — Epione advenaria, Em- 

 melesia unifasciata, Notodonta irepida, Apamea ophio- 

 grninma, Ayrotis cinerea, &c. 



Captures near Brighton. — Sphinx convolvuli, Acidalia 

 rusticaia, Ereniohia ochro/enca, &c. 



Captures near Exeter, &c. — Larenlia ccesiata (on Yes 

 Tor, Dartmoor. Is not this unusual in the South .^), Phiba- 

 hiptery.v polygrammaia, Teihea retusa, &c. 



I believe these are new localities for S.sacraria, C. xeram- 

 pelina, A. Jibrosa, A. ophioyramma, A. rusticaia, P. poly- 

 grammaia, and L. ccesiata. — J. E. Benbow; Grosvenor 

 House, Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, October 24, 1877. 



Female Moths attracting Males. — Attention having 

 been invited to this subject in a past number of the 'Ento- 

 mologist,' I venture to record a fact which is new to me, 

 and perhaps to others, that Sphinx ligustri possesses this 

 power in no small degree. A crippled female having emerged 

 early last June, I placed her upon the curtain in my bed- 

 room : though the window was open all day no males entered 

 before I. went to bed at half-past eleven p.m.; but about 

 three o'clock I was aroused by a loud knocking at the 

 window, which is forty feet from the ground. Leaping out of 

 bed I struck a light, and captured no less than ten males in 

 the room, and could see two others on the glass outside. At 

 this time the female was dead, for I had accidentally crushed 

 her between the bars of the Venetian blind early in the 

 evening. Probably the females of other Sphingidce will prove 

 as attractive during the small hours of the ujorning. I have 

 also known the female of Bombyx quercus after death to 

 attract several males. Pseudopterpna cytisaria assembles 

 males from about seven to nine p.m.; indeed 1 have found 

 that it is a good plan to watch the males as they fly anumg 

 the fuize bushes in order to obtain newly-emerged lemales; 



