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Sphinx convolvuli in London. — A very nice example of this species 

 was found at rest on a window-sill at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 

 South Kensington, on Aug. 23i-d last. The specimen will be added to 

 the National Collection of British Lepidoptera. 



Sphinx convolvuli in Hants. — I found a fine fresh female S. con- 

 vulvuli on a paling at Totland Bay, at precisely the same spot where I 

 found a similar specimen on Sept. 10th, 1901. The date of the present 

 capture was Aug. 19th. — Gr. E. J. Ckallan ; Bodorgan Manor, Bourne- 

 mouth, Aug, 25th, 1904. 



Notes from New Zealand. — Some account of the season 1903-4 

 in New Zealand may be of interest. Beginning at the end of last 

 season, I went to Napier during April and May, and there obtained 

 one or two Vanessa itea identical with specimens which I took at Free- 

 mantle, Western Australia ; Chrysophanns boldenaruw, a pretty little 

 " copper " delicately suffused with purple, was most abundant on the 

 beach, and also a few miles up country along the river beds. This 

 was much lighter than specimens which I have seen from the 

 South Island, some of which are nearly black. I did no night-work, 

 and the only moths I took were our old friend Heliothis armgera, 

 and a new species which Mr. G. B. Hudson has kindly named for me 

 Orthosin i^allida. I then returned to Wellington, where, winter having 

 fairly set in, there was nothing doing until the end of November. 

 About this time the two coppers, Chri/sophamis salustius and C. enysii, 

 were abundant on the flowers of the water-cress. About the same 

 time I obtained one or two Hepialus virescens at light. On New-year's 

 Day I took a damaged example of the rare Forma enysii in the 

 Botanical Gardens. Vanessa gonerilla was early and abundant, my 

 first example being taken Dec. 6th, and another on the 7th ; this 

 insect was not out in the 1902-3 season until the end of January. 

 Owing to the weather being unfavourable when I visited the locality, 

 and also to the fact that a fire had destroyed a large portion of its old 

 haunts, I was unable to again obtain Dodunidea helmsi, only seeing one 

 or two. This fire is particularly uufortuuate, as, once destroyed, the 

 New Zealand bush never re-grows. It will be of interest to English 

 collectors to know that Sphinx convolvuli was common throughout 

 both Islands ; this moth is usually confined to the extreme north of 

 the North Island. In addition to this, several examples of a fine 

 Chcerocampa, not previously recorded in New Zealand, were taken in 

 different parts of the Colony, probably immigrants from Australia. In 

 Coleoptera the only notes I have are : an example of the local Lasio- 

 rhynchus harbicornis, Jan. 4th, 1903; ."Eniona hirta and .E. simpli- 

 coliis, Dec. 8th, 1903; Tnchostemus antarcticus, Jan. 24th, 1094; 

 Odontria xantrosticta , which is a curious little woolly beetle, was 

 common in March and April at light, and lying dead on gravel-paths 

 of a morning. The common ti-tree . beetle, and the tiger Cicindella 

 tuberculata, were abundant throughout the summer. The summer was 

 very long and warm, which probably accounted for the immigrants. I 

 omitted to state that several examples of Deiopeia pukhella were also 

 taken; these latter, and two of the Choerocampas, by Mr. O'Connor, 

 at Titahi Bay. — Hubert W. Simmonds. 



