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Mr. Edward Florrex, of this town, captured a fine specimen 

 of Chcerocampa Celerio : it was at rest on the door of the 

 engine-room in the entrance-yard at the Orwell Works of 

 Messrs. Ransome & Sims, of this town, at six o'clock in the 

 afternoon. — G. Garrett; 172, Woodhridge Road, Ipswich, 

 September 8, 1867. 



Food-plants of the larger Nocturni. — On the 31st of 

 August I found a nearly full-grown larva of Smerinthus 

 Populi on a rose-bush in a wood, with none of its reputed 

 food-plants very near. This seems to afford another proof of 

 the wide range of food of many of the larger Nocturni. The 

 names of this and several other species seem very anomalous, 

 when it is found that they eat a large number of other plants 

 besido that from which they are named. Si)hinx Ligustri 

 has the credit of eating lilac, ash, mountain-ash, lauristinus 

 and holly, besides its original privet. Smerinthus ocellatus 

 will eat poplar, willow, sallow, and any bushes or trees of the 

 order Rosacese ; S. Populi apparently the same, with the 

 addition of birch, laurel and lauristinus ; while Acherontia 

 Atropos seems almost polyphagous. — J. Merrin ; Gloucester, 

 September, 1867. 



[It may be added that Smerinthus ocellatus feeds very 

 commonly on apple-trees in gardens. — E. Newman.'\ 



Beautiful Caterpillar of Smerinthus Populi. — 1. have by 

 this post sent you a peculiarly marked larva of S. Populi, 

 thinking it may not have come under your notice before. 

 1 had one last year, but not quite so many spots on it. I 

 found it feeding on poplar. — G. C. Bignell ; 8, Clarence 

 Place, Sionehouse, Plymouth, August 26, 1867. 



[In this very beautiful variety there are two longitudinal 

 lateral series of delicately pink blotches ; the first series is 

 what might be called subdorsal, being visible from above 

 looking down on the dorsal area ; the second series is 

 spiracular, each spiracle being seated in the middle of a 

 blotch. The ground colour is pale glaucous, so that the 

 blotches are thrown up as it were in a very beautiful manner. 

 ■ — Edward Newman.] 



Mortality amongst Larvae of Eriogasier lanestris. — In the 

 early part of this season I received a large number of larvae 

 of E. lanestris from correspondents in the South ; these I 

 placed together in a large breeding-cage, and supplied them 



