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but insects by no means plentiful—V. R. Prerxins; Wotton- 
under-Edge, September 18, 1883. 
VARIETIES OF Satyrus TiTHONUS, &c.—I recently captured 
two varieties of Satyrus tithonus, both males. One specimen has 
two additional small black spots on all four wings, just inside the 
hind-marginal band; in the other, all that portion of the left 
fore wing outside the transverse brown band is bleached, the rest 
of the insect being quite normal. On August 16th, in Hamp- 
shire, a specimen of Pachycnemia hippocastanaria fell to my net 
at dusk; last year I took the same species as early as March 18th, 
at Shirley. Hubolia lineolata seems to have the repute of being 
specially a coast insect. I netted several specimens in August, on 
the chalk downs at Warminster, in Wiltshire, a long way inland. 
—F.J. Bucxett ; 316, Upper Street, Islington, Sept. 17, 1883. 
DEILEPHILA LIVORNICA IN SuRREY.—I see that several cap- 
tures of the above-named species have recently been recorded in 
the ‘ Entomologist.’ Another can be added to them, as a friend 
of mine took a specimen in good condition last June, near Box 
Hill, at rest on a bramble bush.— Wm. PaskeLi; 39, Hawkstone 
Road, Rotherhithe, September 15th, 1883. 
RETARDED EMERGENCE OF SPHINX LIGUSTRI.—Referring to a 
note on this subject in Entom., vol. xvi., p. 187, I may mention 
that in July of the present year I had two specimens of S. 
ligustrt emerge in my breeding-cage, the larve of which pupated 
in September, 1880. It will therefore be seen that their 
emergence was delayed two years beyond the normal time. The 
bulk of the brood emerged in due course in 1881; none, so far as 
I can remember, in 1882. The pup were kept in an outhouse. 
—Wm. J. Arcenr; Wanstead, September, 1883. 
NoTE UPON DURATION OF PUPAL STAGE OF SMERINTHUS 
poputi.—My son found a full-fed larva of the above-named 
species on the 14th July last. It pupated in a pill-box in which 
it was placed on the 19th of the same month, and emerged a 
perfect specimen on the 17th of August. — H. Jopson; 3, 
Clarendon Road, Walthamstow. 
SPHINX cCoNvoLyuLI AT NorrTinGHAM.—A very fine specimen 
of Sphinx convolwuli has just been taken in a garden here. The 
