544 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Sphinx Convolvuli is caught exclusively at marvel- of- Peru 

 flowers; Deilephila Celerio comes only to petunia blossoms. 

 The weather for the greater part of the month was cool, and 

 nearly every clay we had some showers. The Sphingidae 

 continued common throughout October, but the butterflies 

 were worn ; and thus it appears there are only two months in 

 the year at all worth collecting at Secunderabad. 



Undoubtedly I could have done better than I did if I had 

 had the time and health: in common with many others this 

 failed me in that wretched station, most appropriately named 

 the Graveyard of India. Although not a prolific locality for 

 other families than the Sphingina some good Bombyces were 

 taken by other collectors ; none of the species were British 

 ones. Bombyx Linea is remarkably common here. Choero- 

 campa Nerii was pretty common ; its head-quarters I believe 

 to be the grounds of Tremulgherry Military Prison, as there 

 are several oleander shrubs there. I visited the place on the 

 19th of September, and found that the leaves had been much 

 eaten, indicating the unmistakable presence of the larvae of 

 Chcerocampa Nerii. I was told that some large green 

 caterpillars had been taken from off" the shrubs, and killed. 



In conclusion I have to remark that insects in this country 

 seem widely distributed, and not at all particular as to climate, 

 as upon analysis of the foregoing it will be seen that several 

 of the species occurred at all three places, — on the borders of 

 China, in baking Secunderabad, and at an elevation of seven 

 thousand feet above the level of the sea, — neither of them 

 varying in the least from the original type. 



William Watkins. 



Wellington, Neilgherries, East Indies, 

 July 21, 1873. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8fc. 



Vanessa Antiopa in Surrey. — I was so fortunate as to take 

 a fine specimen of Antiopa on the 6th of August last, on 

 Hindhead Hill, near Haslemere. It was flying over the top 

 of the hill in company with another, which, however, I could 

 not take. — C. W. Haig-Brown ; Eton College, Windsor, 

 October 1-2, 1873. 



