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body it had already deposited its ova; three or four years ago I 
planted a few plants of monkshood, but this is the first time we 
captured P. moneta. The plants have been searched each season, 
but without result until this year. On Wednesday, July 8th, we 
made another search, and found one half-grown larva and one fresh 
cocoon. Would you kindly tell me if there are any previous records 
of P. moneta in Nottinghamshire, or is this the first for the county ?— 
Witt1am Daws; 39, Wood Street, Mansfield, Notts, July 9th, 1914. 
[P. moneta has been noted from most of the counties of England 
up to Cheshire, but I do not recall any previous record of this 
Species from Nottinghamshire.—R. 8.] 
ACHERONTIA ATROPOS IN Kent.—Mr. Percy Richards (antea, p. 
205) recorded a specimen of A. atropos captured at Hythe on 
June 15th last. In a communication dated July 8th he writes :— 
‘‘ Another specimen was found at rest on a mulberry tree in Hythe. 
It is a fine female, measuring 5 in. in expanse. I have no doubt, 
judging from its condition, that it had only just emerged from pupa, 
although the nearest potato patch is two hundred yards from the 
mulberry tree.” 
PAPILIO HOSPITON IN Corstca.—Mr. Gurney states on p. 176 of 
the ‘Entomologist’ that a French entomologist, resident at Ajaccio, 
informed him that the food-plant of this species did not grow in the * 
Vizzavona district, and that examples taken there were chance 
ones. ‘This statement is an error, the food-plant of P. hospiton 
does grow at Vizzavona, and the larve are locally common on it 
there. Towards the end of July, 1906, I found twenty-seven larve 
in two days, as recorded in the ‘ Entomologist,’ xl. p. 77.—W. G. 
SHELDON. 
NoTrE ON AMMOPHILA CAMPESTRIS ?—On the intensely hot after- 
noon of July 11th I was watching a sandy hillside, on West Knighton 
Heath, for Aculeates, My attention was directed to an insect (almost 
certainly Ammophila campestris, which is even commoner than A. 
sabulosa here, but exact determination seemed of less importance 
than leaving the creature undisturbed) which was carrying in its 
mandibles a small, round white pebble. This it carefully deposited, 
with others, at the mouth of its burrow. It then rapidly fussed 
about until it had found another quite similar stone, being very 
eclectic, and so intent on its task that I could bend closely over it. 
After seeing several additions to the little heap, which at last obscured 
the opening, I gently withdrew. Are these last touches of maternal 
care protective against some parasite? Is the habit general ?— 
F. H. Harnss, D.P.H., &c.; Winfrith, Dorset, July 12th, 1914. 
DEILEPHILA (HYLES) EUPHORBIH IN CorNWALL.—While staying 
at St. Gennys, North Cornwall, during August, 1910, I caught a 
large moth, which remained unidentified in my collection until last 
Friday, when a friend told me that, in his opinion, it was a Spurge 
Hawk (Devlephila (Hyles) euphorbie). I took it up to the South 
Kensington Museum yesterday, and they told me that my friend’s 
surmise was correct. I have a fair collection of butterflies, but know 
