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RETARDED EMERGENCE oF SpHINXx LIGUSTRI. — In September, 
1881, a gentleman brought me a specimen of the larva of Sphinx 
ligustri to name for him, which I did, instructing him as to its 
management, being nearly full-fed. It appears that he put it into 
his glass fern-case, and in a few days lost sight of it, forgetting I had 
told him it would bury itself in the ground to pupate. No further 
notice was taken until about the beginning of April this year 
(1883), when a fine imago appeared in his glass fern-case without 
any visible opening or means of access. This so excited his sur- 
prise that he brought me the insect alive in a tumbler, when I 
solved his riddle for him. Of course there is nothing extraordinary 
in this, except the circumstance that here was a pupa kept in- 
doors in a temperature frequently far above the average, yet 
emergence was delayed or retarded nine months beyond the 
normal time, as it ought to have emerged in due course in June, 
1882. This seems difficult to reconcile with forcing emergence 
by the natural or artificial application of increased temperature. 
I have often bred S. ligustri, sometimes in large numbers ; but I 
have never before known any specimen of this species go beyond 
the normal time.-—W. M‘Raet; 3, Bedford Place, Bournemouth, 
July 16, 1883. 
SPHINX prnastTRI.—I have done but little in Entomology for 
the past two years, but I had the good fortune to capture another 
Sphinx pinastri last year, within a few yards of the spot where I 
took the other which was recorded in the ‘Entomologist’ 
(Entom. xiv. 211), and am still on the look out for more, as 
I find I took one on July 22nd, 1881, and one July 23rd, 1882.— 
F. W. Acer; Borough Asylum, Ipswich, July 16, 1883. 
DEILEPHILA LIVORNICA IN Essex. —Mr. E. Bond, of 12 Queen’s 
Square, Upton Park, E., brought to me for inspection this week 
a fine recent specimen of Deilephila livornica, which he had the 
good fortune to find at rest on a door-post of a shop in Upton 
Park, on the 11th inst.—Joun T. Carrineron ; Royal Aquarium, 
Westminster, July 14, 1883. 
Variety oF Hepratus LupuLinus.—The white varieties of 
this swift are common enough on the old Guildford race-course, 
wherever there is any flowering grass, the first week in June. I 
have been endeavouring to catch one quite white, but have not 
hitherto succeeded. The soil is of course chalk. I hope 
