6 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



a shallow box, so that the wings could not become deve- 

 loped, and when brought to me she was a complete cripple. 

 In the evening I placed her on a post in the garden, thinking 

 perhaps the dew might have some effect on her wings. The 

 next morning 1 found her still on the post, but in copulation 

 with as fine a male as I have ever seen. — Stephen Clogg ; 

 JEast Looe, Liskeard. 



Clioerocampa Celerio at Newmarket. — Yesterday I saw a 

 fine specimen of Chcerocarapa Celerio which flew into a shop 

 at Newmarket last month, and was given to Mr. Postans, who 

 also showed me one of four larvae of the same species taken 

 from a vine at Newmarket. The larvae varied much in colour, 

 one being of a light brown, but the one I saw was green, 

 having an eyelet with a silvery pupil on the 4th and 5th seg- 

 ments, and a pale line extending from them to the horn. — 

 Wm. Gaze ; Great Tlnirlow, November 9, 1865. 



Macrogiossa Slellatarum deceived. — Although we have 

 had enough and more than enough notes on the humming- 

 bird hawk-moth this season, I think the following is curious 

 enough to be recorded. A friend informed me this morning 

 that one day in the summer he was called by a member of 

 his family into one of his rooms, to see the curious move- 

 ments of a moth which had got into the apartment. The 

 paper of the room is light-coloured, with a pattern of scat- 

 tered bunches of flowers, red with green leaves, as he was 

 kind enough to show me ; and these flowers the moth was 

 visiting one after the other, as it is often seen to do when 

 flowering-plants are trained on a wall. I was doubtful 

 whether it might not be that the moth was merely fluttering 

 about the wall to find an exit, but my friend assured me that 

 the insect went from flower to flower deliberately, and added 

 that he would scarcely like to say that it did not miss a 

 blossom there depicted, but it seemed to him to take them 

 all in turn. This case of instinct at fault I think more 

 remarkable than if the insect had gone to a bouquet of 

 artificial flowers. — George Guyon ; Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 

 November 10, 1865. 



Note on Poncilocainpa Popitli and Petasia cassinea. — 

 Last year I sent you a note on Poecilocampa Populi expand- 

 ing its wings some time after release from the pupa, when 

 broken by accident (Entom. ii. 133). This year I have broken 



