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should be killed and packed in cotton- wool as soon as taken, if 

 kept alive in tubes they beat themselves abou.t and are spoilt. 

 Atylotus fulvus rather unexpectedly turned up here, two $ ; 

 Chrysops sepulcralis was plentiful in the habitat I discovered in 

 1915, and on August 7th, five J" were taken and about thirty $ . 

 The c? sits on grass stems round the edge of the swamp, and rises 

 for short flights when approached, the 9 > which is very abundant, 

 settles on one's coat, from which it can often be tubed or boxed, 

 if a net is used two or three are often taken at once. Asilus 

 crahroniformis were not plentiful, and it was generally too windy 

 to catch them, this species is so strong, and clings so tightly to 

 the heather when it alights, that tlie net often sweeps over it. Both 

 the Sericomyias were taken and Chrysotoxum festivum, and I am 

 fairly sure that I saw but did not take Physocephala nigra, which 

 I believe Verrall used to find here. Conops quaclrifasciata occurred 

 sparingly ; it may be noted that C. flavi2:>es was fairly common at 

 flowers in gardens on the West Cliff, Bournemouth. — N. D. F. 

 Pearce ; E. K. Peaece ; Crantchester, Cambridge, August 26th, 

 1917. 



EuvANESSA ANTioPA IN SCOTLAND, ETC. — Examples of Euvanessa 

 antiopa are reported by Mr. W. H. St. Quintin, in Kincardineshire, 

 at about 1800 ft., on August 21st (' Field,' September 8th) ; and at 

 Dinnet, on Deeside, on August 7th ('Country Life,' August 18th) ; 

 also, the Editor of the ' Field ' Naturalist Section states that it had 

 been observed in Surrey during the first week of the same month. 

 These reports suggest a wider and earlier emergence than usual as 

 the progeny of migratory hibernators. — H. R.-B. 



Sphinx pinastbi in Suffolk. — Single specimens of this rare 

 species were taken here by my brother, T. N. Waller, in 1875, 1877, 

 1879, and 1894. Three larvse were discovered in 1893 and one 

 in 1899. I captured a worn female in 1906. Since this latter date 

 neither imagines nor larvae have been noticed. I was very glad, 

 therefore, to pick up a pupa (unfortunately dead) on September 30th, 

 a few yards from the pine tree, on which I had taken my last 

 specimen in 1906. It is interesting as showing that the species 

 still apparently maintains itself in the district. — Eev. A. P. Waller ; 

 Waldringfield Rectory, Woodbridge, October 8th, 1917. 



AcHERONTiA (Manduca) atropos. — Up to the present date (Sep- 

 tember 19th) I have seen or heard of at least seven larvte or -pupae of 

 this species this season in this neighbourhood — five in or round 

 Hitchin, and two at Letchworth. It is many years since this species 

 has been reported, with the exception of isolated individuals at 

 intervals of several years. Most of those reported this year were 

 found feeding on Atropa belladonna, which is somewhat extensively 

 cultivated in this district for the purpose of drug manufacture. — 

 A. H. Foster ; Sussex House, Hitchin, Herts. 



Butterflies at Sevenoaks. — It has been a wonderful year for 

 butterflies trying to establish themselves on fresh ground. Aglaia, 

 euphrosyne, and tithonus appeared in the fields round the house, 

 whereas formerly I have not found any of these species witliin several 



