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condition. It spans three inches and a quarter across the wings.—A. 
Cowprr Firetp; 81, Wiltshire Road, Brixton, S.W., Nov. 9, 1892. 
SPHINX CONVOLVULI IN Sussex. — A specimen of S. convolvuli was 
captured here at the end of last September.—W. M. Curisty ; Watergate. 
AGROTIS SAUCIA AND DasycAMPA RUBIGINEA.—I am able to record the 
appearance of Agrotis saucia here in some numbers. Up to the middle of 
October, when I had to leave off trying, I took sixteen at sugar, as follows: 
—Sept. 20th, one; 24th, one; 27th, three; 30th, two; Oct. 5th, two; 
6th, six; 10th, one. These are all the nights, except three, that I could 
go out, so that I think it must have been fairly plentiful. Among the 
captures are four very light brown, without a trace of reddish. On Oct. 
7tn I had the pleasure of taking a single Dasycampa rubiginea.—(Rev.) W. 
Cxiaxton; Hartley Wintney, Winchfield. 
HeLiorals ARMIGERA AT CHICHESTER.—Somewhat singularly, simul- 
taneously with the appearance of Mr. Arkle’s interesting article on Heliothis 
armigera in the September number of the ‘ Entomologist,’ I was engaged 
in identifying a moth, taken here at light on the 28th of that month, and 
which I determined to be that species. Wishing to certify myself I for- 
warded it to Mr. Tugwell for verification. He very kindly did this, and 
wrote that there was no doubt as to the moth being H. armigera. It is 
unfortunately in poor condition, as Mr. Tugwell informs me most of the 
captured specimens are.—_JosepH ANDERSON, Jun.; Chichester. 
ENNOMOS AUTUMNARIA (ALNIARIA), &c., IN Kent. — While sugaring 
in Kent, in the middle of September, this year, I took a female specimen 
of Hnnomos alniaria newly emerged. I kept it alive on the chance that J 
might find a male, which I did on the following day. Both specimens were 
cripples, the female having one of the under wings spoiled and the male all 
four. I placed both together, and kept them alive for a week, but failed to 
get any ova. The male was much smaller than the female; the markings 
and colour were alike, the only difference I noticed being the feathered 
antenne of the male. The male managed to escape; the female I have 
kept for reference if required. Near the same place I saw a few wings of 
the same species, and I believe specimens of EH. ainiaria could be obtained 
in numbers if properly searched for. In the same place I also took Vanessa 
cardui; V. atalanta, common; Colias edusa and C. hyale, plentiful, but 
rather rubbed ; one female Gonepteryx rhamni, perfect, the only one I saw; 
V. io, common, but in bad condition ; five specimens of Macroglossa stella- 
tarum, flying over larkspur. At sugar I took Cosmia diffinis (one), Agrotis 
saucia (plentiful), and several common Noctuz. In the month of July, this 
year, in Leytonstone, I took Apamea ophiogramma, flying over the flowers 
in my garden; at the end of August I took a single specimen of T’hyatira 
batis, in perfect condition, just as it left the sugar.— Jas. Garrow; 
8, Wolseley Terrace, Birkbeck Road, Leytonstone, E., Oct. 9, 1892. 
Larva or PoLtyoMMaTUS ALCIPHRON VAR. GoRDIUS. — The supposed 
“Larva of Polyommatus alciphron y. gordius, Stgr.,” described by me 
(Entom. 288), I now find to be nothing but a fine P. phlwas, female, which 
emerged, on Oct. 30th last, in my puparium. P. gordius is certainly very 
abundant at St. Martin-Vésubie during the season ; in fact, far more so 
than the well-known phlwas, whence, I suppose, my mistake. The speci- 
