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specimens feeding on privet refused the guelder rose as food for a 

 couple of days and vice versa, after which time I gave them privet 

 and guelder rose respectively. On August 20th a fully matured 

 Manduca atropos larva was found at Wye by a woman ; it was feed- 

 ing on scarlet runner beans in her allotment. It measured over six 

 inches, and it was by far the most beautiful specimen of a Death's 

 Head larva I had ever seen. The same evening it began to pupate. 

 Three more pupae of atropos were brought to me during the latter 

 part of September by different farm labourers from the College farm. 

 They were picked up during the digging of potatoes, and others have 

 been sent to Mr. Theobald from Gloucestershire. On August 10th 

 six fully matured larvae of Svicrintlius oceUatus were found by me 

 in the College orchard, where they had practically stripped most of 

 the branches of the young apple-trees on which they were found. 

 Many others also found on apples have been received at the labora- 

 tory from other parts of Kent and Worcestershire. On September 

 20th I had a most welcome visitor in the shape of Sphinx convolvuli 

 — a perfect male specimen and evidently newly emerged — which 

 flew into my room through the window. Svierinthus populi and 

 GhcBrocampa elpenor have also been obtained plentifully in the larval 

 stage on poplar and the willow-herb respectively. A male specimen 

 of Metopsilus porcellus was captured as well. — H. C. Efflatoun, 

 F.E.S., M.E.A.C. ; Wye, Kent. 



Vaeieties of Abraxas geossulaeiata at Chichester. — During 

 the month of August many very pretty Abraxas grossulariata were 

 taken in the Priory Park here by my brother, Mr. Frederick Anderson. 

 Most of them were darker and more spotted and banded than the 

 type. Amongst them is one closely resembling a specimen in my 

 cabinet, labelled lacticolor, or chalcozona, ab. (Ray nor), except that all 

 the wings are whiter than these. Another is a remarkably striking 

 insect, unlike any that I have seen, the fore wings having a black, 

 uneven band at the base, and a wide, black band in the middle of the 

 wings, enclosing on each a still darker, circular spot. There is no 

 trace of yellow about them, and the body is black. Another is like 

 it, but the black is more suffused, and there are indications of the 

 yellow band or line. The body of this example is black. — Joseph 

 Anderson; Chichester. 



Polia CHI AB. olivacea IN Deebyshiee. — At Baslow in Derbyshire 

 P. chi was very abundant; ab. olivacea, Steph., was common; and I 

 noted one specimen of ab. suffusa, Tutt. — Leicester Payne ; Dela- 

 mere. Silver Hill, Sheffield. 



Butterflies in the Steoud Disteict. — Following my note on 

 p. 208 I may say that I was down in the same district the first 

 week of October and found Aglais urticcB in profusion as I expected ; 

 Michaelmas daisies ai:id single asters were alive with them in 

 the gardens. Of V. io I saw none but there were a few P. atalanta 

 about. I also saw a perfect Polygonia c-album on some ivy-fiower. 

 Mr. Grant (p. 256) does not say exactly when he saw the worn 

 specimens of the latter species, but those I saw on my previous 

 visit (last week in July) were in perfect condition. — C. Nicholson ; 

 35, The Avenue, Hale End, Chingford, E. 4. 



